Our lab work today should help us understand more about the relationships between height and energy. We are going to complete a pendulum lab to experiment with different heights and amounts of energy.
REVIEW: Think about the watermelon splat-o-meter video we watched. What causes the splat to increase?
List your lab materials here - what will we use to conduct our investigation today?
Conduct three trials holding your pendulum at a height of 10 cm above the ground. (Use the side of the measuring tape with the red numbers.)
Record your data in the table, and calculate the average of the three trials.
Conduct three trials holding your pendulum at a height of 30 cm above the ground.
Record your data in the table, and calculate the average of the three trials.
Conduct three trials holding your pendulum at a height of 50 cm above the ground.
Record your data in the table, and calculate the average of the three trials.
Copy your average data only in the table below.
OBSERVATIONS: What did you observe in this investigation? How did changing the height of the pendulum affect the distance the box traveled?