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Exercise 2: Ball Drop. The goal of this exercise is to measure the acceleration of an object in free fall. For this experiment you will need the following items: A measuring device (ideally a measuring tape, but you can tape sheets of paper together and put markings on it as well).
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 free-falling objects:
Place a foam pad on the floor and hold a ball so that it is the desired height from the floor. Assume the uncertainty in the measured distance to be a radius of the ball. 2. Use a stopwatch to record the time of the fall. It’s best to have one lab partner drop the ball and another do the timing.
The overall aim of the experiment is to calculate the value of the acceleration due to gravity, g. This is done by measuring the time it takes for a ball-bearing to fall a certain distance. The acceleration is then calculated using an equation of motion.
The goal of this lab is to study the behavior of a very light falling object, and to demonstrate the full range of behavior as it starts from rest, increases speed, and approaches terminal velocity.
This experiment measures the viscosity of different liquid samples by timing how long it takes a steel ball to fall through each liquid. The terminal velocity of the falling ball is used to calculate the absolute viscosity of each sample based on Stokes' law.
A steel ball was dropped from various heights, and its fall times recorded. The ball was dropped over ten distances ranging from y 1 = 10 cm to y 10 = 100 cm in 10-cm increments. For each value of y i = 10icm (i= 1;:::;10), the ball was dropped ten times. The apparatus consisted of a meter stick held vertically by clamps. A Pasco free-fall
