SPH3U Motion Lab: Speed
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Question
What is the speed of a toy car?
Hypothesis
(Write a prediction for your car’s speed with brief support)
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Design
(Decide what needs to be measured to determine the speed & any calculations you will use)
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Materials
(Decide what materials you need to measure the speed, include the letter marked on your car)
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Procedure
(List step by step what you will do to measure the speed – Include 3 trials)
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Observations
(Record your observations/measurements in a neat fashion).
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Analysis
(Perform any calculations needed – create a graph showing what happened during your experiment)
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Conclusions
(State what you determined the speed to be)
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Discussion
(List some ways to improve your experiment and any sources of error that may have occurred)
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