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 Create your data 2) Using the data from the table make a position-time graph 3) 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) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4