1. Ticker Tape Lab

2. Purpose
To see how position, velocity, and acceleration are connected

3. 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

4. Apparatus Ticker tape timer Carbon Paper 50 g mass Masking tape
Metre stick
Graph Paper

5. 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

6. Make a position-time graph
Time (s)
Position from origin (m)
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