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Yuichiro Suzuki
Period 1
Partner: Kevin Sun
March 2nd, 2015
Raw Data:
Radius (cm)
+/- 0.1
100g
26.81
26.06
80.0
120g
23.91
24.00
80.0
140g
23.44
23.37
80.0
160g
21.94
22.31
80.0
180g
20.25
20.25
80.0
200g
19.62
19.62
80.0
220g
18.56
18.87
80.0
240g
17.75
17.81
80.0
260g
16.56
16.69
80.0
280g
16.00
16.12
80.0
Data Analysis:
The Average Time, Average Period, Circumference, Speed, and Centripetal
Force for 10 Different masses
Average
time
(s)
Period (s)
Circumferenc
e
(m)
Speed
(m/s)
Speed
Squared
(m2/s2)
Force
Centripetal
(N)
26.44
0.8812
6.283
7.130
50.84
0.980
23.96
0.7985
6.283
7.869
61.91
1.176
23.41
0.7802
6.283
8.053
64.85
1.372
22.13
0.7375
6.283
8.519
72.58
1.568
20.25
0.6750
6.283
9.308
86.64
1.764
19.62
0.6540
6.283
9.607
92.30
1.960
18.72
0.6238
6.283
10.07
101.4
2.156
17.78
0.5927
6.283
10.60
112.4
2.352
16.63
0.5542
6.283
11.34
128.5
2.548
16.06
0.5353
6.283
11.74
137.8
2.744
Sample Calculation
Average Time:
Average Period:
Circumference:
Speed:
Conversion: cm to m 100m/100 = 1m
Circumference = 2 radius (m)
Circumference = 2 1m
Circumference= 6.283m
Speed Squared:
Speed Squared = speed speed
Speed Squared = 7.130m/s 7.130m/s
Speed Squared = 50.837m2/s2 50.84 m2/s2
Force Centripetal:
Conversion: g to kg 100g/1000 = 0.1kg
Force Centripetal = Force Gravity
Fc = Ag M
Fc = 9.8 m s2 0.1 kg
Fc = 0.98N
Graphs:
Conclusion:
The positive incline in both force vs speed and force vs speed squared graph
reveals that as the force centripetal increase, the speed of the stopper will
increase as well. This relationship is represented in the equation Fc = mv 2/r.
To show the relationship between speed and Fc, we can eliminate the
constants in this equation; which are mass of the stopper and the radius.
Thus the relation can be written as Fc v2 and this is the relationship
shown in the graph. Also the curves in both graphs are almost linear. This
indicates that the proportion of increase in force centripetal is almost
constant. This proves that our investigation was accurate because we
controlled Fc is equivalent to Fg in this investigation and we controlled it by
changing the mass in a constant rate of 20g.
Evaluation:
In this investigation, there were mainly two sources of error.
One error is how parallel to the ground the stopper was spinning. Since we
were spinning the stopper, it was not possible to spin the stopper perfectly
parallel to the ground. When the circular path is not parallel to the ground,
the force centripetal will not be the same for every part of the path as the
lower part will have less force acting upon the stopper and the higher part
will have more force acting upon the stopper due to gravity. This will affect
our calculation of Force centripetal. If there was a device that could spin the
stopper at exact horizontal, this error could be minimized.
Second error is the fact that the length of the radius was variable. This is
due to the inconsistency of the speed at which we spun the stopper. The red
marking that we made to make sure that the radius was not changing
moved up and down and had small changes in our radius during the
investigation. This affected in our data because firstly, we needed to make
the speed faster and slower to adjust the radius and secondly because we
cannot assume that the radius stayed the same when considering about the
relationship between Fc and speed. This error can be reduced if we used a
device that will spin the stopper at a constant speed.