Ticker Tape Lab

Purpose

• To see how position, velocity, and acceleration are connected

Theory

• The tickertape apparatus can produce 60 dots or (ticks) in one second.

• This means that the there is one tick every 1/60th of a second

• By measuring the position from the origin of every 10 ticks, a position time graph can be made.

• Note: 10 ticks = 0.1 seconds

Apparatus

• Ticker tape timer

• Carbon Paper

• 50 g mass

• Masking tape

• Metre stick

• Graph Paper

Procedure

1)Create your data

2) Using the data from the table make a position-time graph3) Calculate the velocity for each time interval

4) Using this data, create a velocity-time graph

5) Take the slope of the velocity-time graph

Make a position-time graph

Time (s) Position from origin (m)

0 0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4