Physic 11

Free
Lab report

fall
TEACHER:
Ms. Susana Alulod

BY:
Akradej Gorowara 5961149

Chalisa Detchanun 5961034

Chin Dejkajohnwud 5961058

Patcharipa Chanaturakarnnon 5961106

Phaskorn Chaitheerayanon 5961066

 Introduction

In our daily life, we can observe a free fall which is a kind

of motion that we see every day. We drop something

accidentally or purposely and see its motion. Galileo Galilei

was the first scientist who noticed that all objects in free fall

near the Earths surface accelerate vertically downward

with the same acceleration. Free falling describes an object

that falls under the influence of gravity neglect any air

resistance. A state of free fall means that the object is only

acted by the force of the gravity, The force of gravity is the

force with which the earth, the moon, or other massively

large object attracts another object towards itself. In

addition, all free-falling objects accelerate downwards is

most accurately known as 9.8 m/s/s(Earth's gravity). If the

object is dropped from any height, the initial velocity of the

object will always consider being 0.

In this experiment, we will demonstrate the acceleration

of the gravity, velocity, time, and displacement by

measuring the time of the balls (heavy ball and light ball)

that are dropped from a known height. We will also verify

that the acceleration due to gravity does not depend on the

mass of the ball.

 Objectives
Experimental
- To prove Galileos theory

- To prove that the gravitational acceleration

is constant.

- To be able to calculate the acceleration,

displacement, velocity and time in relation to

gravity.

- To be able to define error of the

experiment(air resistance, drop timing, false

stopwatch data and calculation error)

Learning
- To practice using the gravity calculation

formula

(distance = x acceleration x time x time,

- velocity = acceleration x time)

To understand the free fall motion

 Materials

A measuring tape

3 stopwatches

3 soccer balls

3 volleyballs
 Procedure
1. Measure the height of the site which was used

to make the experiment.

2. Drop a soccer ball from that height and let 3

people using stopwatches to reckon the time.

3. Record the result and repeat the second step

until reaching 3 times.

4. Do the same steps with volleyballs.

Setup
 Analysis
The outcome of the experiment was not what we

predict it to be. The percent differences of distance

was a lot off which mean that the different mass of

each ball affect the free-falling distance. The result

shouldnt be different than 10%, but we actually got

19.33% for the light balls and 32.66% for the heavy

balls. The possible errors that we could make were

that we might hold the ball higher than the balcony

or we were not release the ball at the same time

called human errors or there was also has air

resistances due to the environment. As a result, we

got the mistaken solution from our experiment.

Conclusion
From this experiment, we understood the concept

of the Galileos theory and the formula that used in

the calculation. We were able to calculate the

acceleration, displacement, velocity and time in

relation to gravity. And we could define the factor

that made our result inaccurate.

 Work log
Group Members Work

- Drop the balls

Akradej - Calculate the results

- Write a conclusion

- Timing

- Rewrite the data

Chalisa
and the caalculation

- Write an analysis

- Record the data

- Timing
Chin
- Write introduction

- Write a conclusion

- Timing

- Write the procedures

Patcharipa
- Create a material list

- Create the setup

- Measure the height

Phaskorn
- Write the objectives
 References

- https://headrushtech.com/blogs/what-is-free-

fall/

- http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/1Dkin

/u1l5a

-http://motionfreefall.blogspot.com/p/introdu

ction-to-free-fall.html