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TECHNICAL REPORT
Date : 10/11/2016

Tittle Of Experiment : Free Fall

Group : BTE

Name : Muhammad Syukri Bin Abdullah

I/D: TB 16123

Name : Mohd Afif Bin Fizer

I/D: TB16116

Name : Muhammad Amirul Adli Bin Kadir

I/D: TB16054
Name: Aiman Farid Bin Abd Rahman
I/D: TB16074
Abstract
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This experiment is about a body fall in the gravitational field of the earth from a height h to the
ground. It experiences a constant acceleration as long as the falling distance is small and friction
can be neglected. This motion is called free fall. In the experiment, the free fall is investigated
on a steel ball which is suspended from an electromagnet.

Hypothesis
1. Different mass of object will fall at different velocity.
2. Different height will not affect the acceleration of object.

Objectives
1. To investigate the motion of freely falling object.
2. To calculate the acceleration of gravity.

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Introduction

A free falling object is an object that is falling under the sole influence of gravity. Any
object that is being acted upon only by the force of gravity is said to be in a state
of free fall. There are two important motion characteristics that are true of freefalling objects:

Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance.

All free-falling objects (on Earth) accelerate downwards at a rate of 9.8 m/s/s
(often approximated as 10 m/s/s for back-of-theenvelope calculations)
Because free-falling objects are accelerating downwards at a rate of 9.8
m/s/s, a ticker tape trace or dot diagram of its motion would depict an
acceleration. The dot diagram at the right depicts the acceleration of a
free-falling object. The position of the object at regular time intervals say, every 0.1 second - is shown. The fact that the distance that the
object travels every interval of time is increasing is a sure sign that the
ball is speeding up as it falls downward. Recall from an earlier lesson,
that if an object travels downward and speeds up, then its acceleration
is downward.
Free-fall acceleration is often witnessed in a physics classroom by
means of an ever-popular strobe light demonstration. The room is
darkened and a jug full of water is connected by a tube to a medicine
dropper. The dropper drips water and the strobe illuminates the falling droplets at a
regular rate - say once every 0.2 seconds. Instead of seeing a stream of water freefalling from the medicine dropper, several consecutive drops with increasing
separation distance are seen. The pattern of drops resembles the dot diagram shown
in the graphic at the right.

Procedure
1. Set the operating mode of the counter to tEF by pressing the MODE key
several times.
2. If necessary, press the contact plate back into the zero position.
3. Press the START key so that the associated status LED shines.
4. Press the key of the holding magnet adapter quickly to start the free fall of the ball.
5. When the ball has hit the contact plate, read the falling time and take it down.
6. Reduce the falling distance h by 5 cm by lowering the holding magnet, press the
contact plate into its zero position, and reset the counter S to zero by pressing the
Start key.
7. Suspend the ball anew, and repeat the measurement.
8. Reduce the falling distance in steps of 5 cm, each time repeating the measurement

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Observation / Results and Discussion

h/cm
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
100

h/cm
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
100

t/ms
377
386
394
410
419
440
442
447
450
463

t/ms
1421.29
1489.96
1552.36
1681.00
1755.61
1936.00
1953.64
1998.09
2025.00
2143.69

h/ms
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50

h/ms
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50

t/cm
164
203
238
245
265
292
305
325
356
365

t/cm
271.78
412.09
566.44
600.25
702.25
852.64
930.25
1056.25
1267.36
1332.25

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Conclusion
1. Set the operating mode of the counter to tEF by pressing the MODE key several times.
2. If necessary, press the contact plate back into the zero position.
3. Press the START key so that the associated status LED shines.
4. Press the key of the holding magnet adapter quickly to start the free fall of the ball.
5. When the ball has hit the contact plate, read the falling time and take it down.
6. Reduce the falling distance h by 5 cm by lowering the holding magnet, press the contact plate
into its zero position, and reset the counter S to zero by pressing the
Start key.
7. Suspend the ball anew, and repeat the measurement.
8. Reduce the falling distance in steps of 5 cm, each time repeating the measurement.

Recommendation

1. Try to repeat the experiment, using different diameter of spring

2. Do the experiment with different weight

References
1. Young & Freedman University Physics 13th edition.
2. Cambridge IGCSE Physics - Duncan, Tom 3th edition..

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