NATHADOL JOMSIRIWATTANA (NOL) 10-7

Physics Lab 1
Investigating Constant Velocity with a Motion Detector

A. Objectives
- To familiarize yourself with laboratory equipment
- To measure displacement and velocity

B. Materials
- Vernier data-collection interface with LabQuest App
- Motion Detector
- Vernier Dynamics Track
- Vernier Dynamics Cart




C. Result

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D. Analysis

1.
First graph











Second graph






















Third graph

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2. The information about the motion of cart that is provided by the slope is velocity.
If the graph has much slope, it means that it has much velocity. If the slope is
negative, it means the velocity is negative too or you can say it comes backward
(In physics the vector that is negative mean it get same value as positive vector
but opposite direction). By the definition of slope that is =

and this
graph the y-axis is the or displacement and x-axis is the or time so we now
get =

= then = ( =

and is the velocity).

3. We know that if the slope more, velocity more. If the slope less, velocity less. Or
you can say (Actually = ) so to compare the velocity of first and
second graph is to just look the graph and tell which one look has more slope
and the one that has more slope is the one that has more velocity. In this case the
second graph look has more slope than the first one then the second graph has
more velocity than the first one.

4. The second one has more slope than the first one (second one get 0.6, the first
one get 0.1) so it has more velocity than the first one as I say above.

5. Look at number 1

6. The significance of the third graph is the negative slope. As I say above =
so if is negative, is negative and the meaning of negative is the positive
positive that has opposite direction so the graph that has negative will look
like \ not look like / which has positive then in this case it means the cart
is moving backward.