August 20

Today in class, students worked in period 1-4 to share their results from the Buggy lab. Students learned that we will use the metric system, and that human errors in timing, parallax error, and other sources of systemic error can be real problems for our work. Most classes concluded that the cars move at a constant velocity, but some students and classes said that the cars change their paces. Period 6 and 7 collected data today using the cars, whiteboard tracks, timers, and metersticks.

HOMEWORK: Read over Tonights Article.    Relative Motion Practice Problems 2