IB Cannon Lab

You will need the data from your class - Skip to the calculations part

Basic rationale for the lab:

8:23

Cannon goes boom:

9:37

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Here is another video:

0:06Physics Cannon 2017 04 07 Period 5 1x

0:16Physics Cannon 2017 04 07 Period 5 SloMo

How to do the Calculations (The part that you turn in for credit):

10:01

5:34

Here is the data we got for 2015:

Cannon: 7.5 +/- .5 kg

1A

Tennis Ball: 64 +/- 5 g

Trial 1: 8.72 s, 8.43 s, 2.95 +/- .05 m

Trial 2: 7.30 s, 7.56 s, 2.35 +/- .05 m

2B

Tennis Ball: 64 +/- 5 g

Trial 1: 9.14 s, 6.58 s, 3.52 +/- .05 m

Trial 2: 8.38 s, 8.38 s (use +/- .1 s), 3.48 +/- .05 m

4B

Tennis Ball: 62 +/- 5 g

Trial 1: 5.12 s. 5.31 s, 0.98 +/- .05 m

Trial 2: 8.07 s, 8.14 s, 2.98 +/- .05 m