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PHY 201
Your 'question form' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
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Motion in a Force Field Experiment:
Based on the time of fall and the distances of the landing points from the straight-line path, you can use the same procedures to determine the velocities of the ball perpendicular to the original path. Report using the same format as in the preceding, and include your explanation starting in the second line:
Your answer (start in the next line):
-.39, .37, -.09, .03, -.12 cm/s
For each trail I used the displacements from the straight line and took the average of them. Then, I divided that average displacement into the time interval and got the speed of the ball perpendicular to the original path: -.16 cm / .4052 s = -.39 cm/s.
careful about the terminology: you divided that average displacement by, not into, the time interval
in any case your calculation is correct
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I have a question about getting the velocities of the ball perpendicular to the orgiginal path. I have distances that are negative and postive, which I was instructed to assign to theses distacnes by which side the points were from the orginial path. So, did I calculate the velocities perpendicular to the straight line correctly?
**It appears that you did.**