Hot Wheel Acceleration Lab

Distance vs Time graph:

Velocity vs Time graph:

Results
Dont forget units!
1. What speed did your car start at? 0 m/s
At what time?
2.99 s
2. What speed did your car end at? 0.7 m/s
At what
time? 6.65s
3. What was the change in your cars speed?
4. How long did it take for your car to go from its starting
speed to its ending speed? 3.47s
5. What was your cars acceleration (change in speed divided
by time)? 1.49m/s/s
6. Compare the acceleration to the slope of your Velocity vs
Time graph are your numbers close? A little bit.

Conclusion

1. As the car went further down the ramp what did you notice
happen to the points that you added to the video to mark
the car? The points got farther away from each other.
2. Explain what the acceleration means that you found in the
results. It means that the car had positive
acceleration.
3. Explain the curved line shown on the distance vs. time
graph. It means that the car went faster as it went
farther down the ramp.

4. Compare and contrast the lines seen on the distance vs.

time graph and the velocity vs. time graph. The D vs.
Time graph goes smoothly up, when the other one
didnt.
5. Design another experiments that you will film and you will
use the Logger Pro software on.
A snowboarder going down a hill. Someone sprinting.