Vertical Motion Laboratory

When you mount the motion detector on the ceiling, make sure it is facing straight down and put the switch on "person" setting and not "cart" setting.
When throwing the ball, don't get too close to the detector (< 30 cm or 1 ft.), since the detector will not read distance correctly. Watch for sudden jumps in velocity, which generally indicate getting too close or ball moving too much sideways.
Select data on position, velocity and acceleration to get your parameters. Make sure to use the same time period each time, and be careful to not miss points that might be high or low in the time period.
Save a copy of your graphs by copying the graph in DataStudio, then doing a "Paste Special" into MS Word and saving it as a picture format.

You will turn in a lab report for this lab. I expect it will be on the order of 2-3 pages. It should consist of the following:

A brief (~1 paragraph) summary of what was done, results gained, and conclusions
A discription of what you did (proceedure). I'm expecting a few paragraphs, detailed enough that someone could replicate your work and get similar results.
Results: This will include your graphs, fit parameters and other data, with enough text to explain them.
Conclusions: summarizing your findings, discussion of how it fits with other experimental results.