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01 2021 KEY Motion Sensor Introduction Lab 2021

The document outlines a lab activity focused on investigating motion sensor graphs, including pre-lab questions about distance versus time graphs for various scenarios. It includes instructions for matching distance and velocity graphs through practical walking exercises and encourages students to predict movements based on graph shapes. The lab also includes analysis sections for sketching objects with different acceleration behaviors.

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01 2021 KEY Motion Sensor Introduction Lab 2021

The document outlines a lab activity focused on investigating motion sensor graphs, including pre-lab questions about distance versus time graphs for various scenarios. It includes instructions for matching distance and velocity graphs through practical walking exercises and encourages students to predict movements based on graph shapes. The lab also includes analysis sections for sketching objects with different acceleration behaviors.

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

Lab: Investigating Motion Sensor Graphs

Part I: Pre-lab Questions:

1. Roughly sketch what you think the distance versus time graphs would be for the following. Note that the
motion detector is at d = 0.

An object at rest at 1 m An object moving away from the detector, at a


constant speed, from the origin

An object moving toward the detector from 3 m An object that is accelerating away, from a position
away, at a constant speed of 1m, at a constant acceleration

To test your prediction, go to the appropriate starting point (can you tell where your starting point is for the
first graph? How many meters away is it?). When you are ready, have a partner begin collecting and move in
a way to match that graph. Make sure that everyone in your group tries this.

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

Part II: Matching Distance vs Time Graphs

In this portion of the lab you will see a motion graph and you are
going to try and match what you see.

1. Open the experiment file 01b Graph Matching. You should


see the following graph

Use words to describe how you would walk to produce such a graph:

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

2. Repeat this with experiment file 01c Graph Matching. You should see the following graph.

Use words to describe how you would walk to produce such a graph:

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

Part III: Matching Velocity vs. Time Graphs

In this section our graphs have different axes. Velocity is now on the y-axis and time is on the x-axis.

3. Open experiment file 01d Graph Matching. You should see the following graph.

Use words to predict how you would walk to produce such a graph:

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

4. Open experiment file 01e Graph Matching. You should see the following graph.

Use words to predict how you would walk to produce such a graph:

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Name: ________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________

Analysis:

5. Sketch an object moving at high acceleration.

6. Sketch an object moving at a negative acceleration (decelerating).

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