Friday 9 October 2015

Slope and Distance

After our friction experiments, both classes have been looking at other aspects of forces. In 4G we've been looking the angle of our slope.
We used a protractor to work out what angles were possible on the slope.
We wanted to see how the angle of the slope affects the distance a car goes after it runs down the slope. So, we tried it at lots of different angles, keeping every other variable the same.
We recorded what we found:
In some cases, the bigger the angle was, the further the car went:
Graphed with Desmos
In other cases, as the angle got bigger the distance got longer, but then, after a certain point, it got shorter again:
 Here's a chart that joins together all our results with an average result:
We talked about why there was that strange dip at the end. We had some good answers.

But what do you think?

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