Outside Car Experiment

Today at the beggining of class we we told to get our coats because we were going to conduct an experiment outside. The problem was that a car moves at a steady pace and we were going to map it with a dot every second and check the space between the dots to see if the car went faster. We wthen sent people to the board to give some ideas of diagrams. One example diagram is,___,_____,_______,_________, you can tell the car is speeding up in this diagram because the distance betwwen each dot. The hypothesis is If an eqaution is balanced it gradually gets faster, when balanced it stays the same speed. We then went the bowling ball experiment and drew a force diagram for it and said there was downward and sideways, we then had a volunteer draw dots every second marked by a crack. The marks were a constant rate. We then went outside to conduct the experiment. Some students pushed a car exerting an unbalanced force by pushing on the car and Mr. Finley also did.
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