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    Circular Motion: Purpose of Lab

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    This lab experiment aimed to determine the relationship between centripetal acceleration and an object moving at a constant speed in a circular path. Measurements found the angular velocity to be 204.075 ± 0.2475 degrees/second for a 10cm radius. Calculations using the measured values yielded a velocity of 0.356 ± 0.02475 m/s and an acceleration of 1.267 ± 0.000187 m/s^2. Sources of error included potential equipment malfunctions and inconsistencies in rotating the apparatus. Overall, the experiment successfully related centripetal acceleration to angular velocity and circular motion despite initial conceptual difficulties.

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    This lab experiment aimed to determine the relationship between centripetal acceleration and an object moving at a constant speed in a circular path. Measurements found the angular velocity to be 204.075 ± 0.2475 degrees/second for a 10cm radius. Calculations using the measured values yielded a velocity of 0.356 ± 0.02475 m/s and an acceleration of 1.267 ± 0.000187 m/s^2. Sources of error included potential equipment malfunctions and inconsistencies in rotating the apparatus. Overall, the experiment successfully related centripetal acceleration to angular velocity and circular motion despite initial conceptual difficulties.

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    Circular Motion

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    This lab experiment aimed to determine the relationship between centripetal acceleration and an object moving at a constant speed in a circular path. Measurements found the angular velocity to be 204.075 ± 0.2475 degrees/second for a 10cm radius. Calculations using the measured values yielded a velocity of 0.356 ± 0.02475 m/s and an acceleration of 1.267 ± 0.000187 m/s^2. Sources of error included potential equipment malfunctions and inconsistencies in rotating the apparatus. Overall, the experiment successfully related centripetal acceleration to angular velocity and circular motion despite initial conceptual difficulties.

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    Circular Motion: Purpose of Lab

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    Timothy Xiong
    This lab experiment aimed to determine the relationship between centripetal acceleration and an object moving at a constant speed in a circular path. Measurements found the angular velocity to be 204.075 ± 0.2475 degrees/second for a 10cm radius. Calculations using the measured values yielded a velocity of 0.356 ± 0.02475 m/s and an acceleration of 1.267 ± 0.000187 m/s^2. Sources of error included potential equipment malfunctions and inconsistencies in rotating the apparatus. Overall, the experiment successfully related centripetal acceleration to angular velocity and circular motion despite initial conceptual difficulties.

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    Circular Motion

    Purpose of lab
    Find out the relation between centripetal acceleration of an object moving with a
    constant speed in a circular path.

    Measurements and Results


    m = 9.07 0.011 degrees/second

    360
    16

    scaling factor =

    2 =

    = 204.075 0.2475 degrees/second

    r = 10 cm or 0.1 m

    )( )

    Equations

    0.00432 2 3.56
    +
    0.10
    0.01

    f =0.1831

    v
    r

    v =0.10 m3.56
    v =0.356 m/ s

    used to find the error

    f =

    a=

    Equations

    used to find Velocity and


    Acceleration

    df
    df
    d
    f =
    dr

    204.075
    180

    v =r

    df 2 df
    +
    d
    dr

    2 =3.56 radians/sec

    f =

    1
    180 (Have to find

    terms of radians)

    2 =

    Given:
    r error = 0.005 m

    f=

    1 =mscaling factor

    )( )

    a=

    0.356 2
    0.1

    a=1.267 m/s2

    radians
    sec

    in

    Analyze
    During the experiment we were given all out data in degree/second and needed to
    change them from degree/second to radian/second. In order to do that we had to
    multiply degree/seconds by

    180

    to convert them to radians.

    Calculations Questions
    1.) Find velocity with 10cm radius and the velocity error.

    v =r

    v =r

    v =0.10 m3.56

    v =0.356

    radians
    sec

    v =0.10 m0.2475

    m
    s

    v =0.356 0.02475

    v =0.02475

    m
    s

    m
    s

    The experimental velocity is 0.356 m/s with an error of 0.02475 m/s.


    2.) Find acceleration with a 10 cm radius and the acceleration error.
    2

    a=

    v
    r

    a=

    0.356
    0.1

    a=
    2

    a=

    0.005
    0.1

    v
    r

    a=1.267

    m
    2
    s

    a=0.000187

    m
    2
    s

    a=1.267 0.000187 m/ s2
    The experimental acceleration is 1.267 m/s/s with an error of 0.000187 m/s/s.

    Synthesize
    1. What was the independent variable?
    The independent variable is time. Time was controlled so that we can analyze
    degrees of rotation.
    2. What variables did you measure?
    Measured the degrees of rotation. We did this by measuring the amount of times
    the apparatus rotated across the laser.

    Error Analysis
    What are the sources of error in this experiment?
    The equipment could had malfunctioned like, the laser was blocked by a small
    particle and gave us wrong data. Also there could have been an overhang or
    another slit on the plate with cuts that was rotating, it could have given us wrong
    data also.

    Conclusion
    Overall the experiment was very hard to understand because there was confusion in
    understanding partial derivatives. But after the experiment was finished and we
    collected all the data we needed, the data fell into its places we were able to finish
    our calculations. Also the angular velocity was dependent on how fast you pushed
    the apparatus, so every group had different data depending on how fast they
    pushed the apparatus.

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