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Spin Speed Makeup Lab

The document provides instructions for a simulation experiment to investigate how the speed of an object rotating in a circle relates to its distance from the center of rotation. Users are asked to place a ladybug object at increasing distances from the center of a spinning platform, measure the time it takes to complete one revolution, and record the data to graph speed versus radius. The instructions aim to demonstrate that rotational speed increases with distance from the center.

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Spin Speed Makeup Lab

The document provides instructions for a simulation experiment to investigate how the speed of an object rotating in a circle relates to its distance from the center of rotation. Users are asked to place a ladybug object at increasing distances from the center of a spinning platform, measure the time it takes to complete one revolution, and record the data to graph speed versus radius. The instructions aim to demonstrate that rotational speed increases with distance from the center.

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Spin Speed Makeup Lab

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/rotation

1. Stay on Intro, check the Ruler, change Angular Velocity to 180.

2. Pause the simulation, then move the ruler so that 0 is at the center of the spinning platform.

3. Put the Ladybug at a radius (distance from center) of 1m.

4. Start the simulation again. Observe how long the green velocity vector is. Using your own stopwatch, record

the time it takes the ladybug to make 1 full revolution (1 time around the circle).

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4, but increase the radius by 1m each time. You should have times for 1m, 2m, 3m, and 4m

when you are all done.

6. Calculate the speed of the ladybug for each radius. You can assume the distance is the circumference of the

circle that it travels in, and the time is what you measured.

7. Make a Speed VS Radius graph with your 4 points.

8. What happens to the speed of the ladybug as it gets closer to the edge of the platform?

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