Recent content by Koin

I actually saw that spreadsheet but I wasn't sure if it would be a close simulation to PhET and I was pressed for time to submit the lab report. Also, the reason I don't want to share my work is that I have to submit it and it might go through something like Turnitin to check if students are...

I talked with one of my TAs and he explained that basically the lab was configured to show that air resistance was still pretty much negligible. This makes more sense than trying to compute the acceleration with drag force factored in as the acceleration is not constant throughout the whole...

Also if you mean instantaneous velocity I’m not sure how effective incorporating drag force into my calculations for acceleration is going to be because doesn’t that mean I would have to find the velocity at each second (time was given in seconds) and repeatedly update the velocity to update the...

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/flteqs.html That's where I got that information on acceleration for descents from. And yes I got the heights and times from the PhET simulation: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/projectile-motion/latest/projectile-motion_en.html to see the lab...

It's actually not my code. The simulation is by Univ. of Colorado's PhET. I also just realized that where I found the equations for ascent and descent acceleration (a NASA source) it said descent acceleration was 0 because after maximum height has been reached, the acceleration becomes 0 and...

Also, sorry! I made a typo: instead of a smaller approximation, it should have said a smaller acceleration for the heavier object.

Thank you BvU! What I mean by 'total acceleration' is the acceleration for the total flight or path in the horizontal direction. I found this theoretically by first finding the accelerations for ascent and descent with the equations I listed and then finding the average of the two for each...

Total acceleration equaled = -9.81