Recent content by ozarklg

Thank you so much. This was making me crazy!

Okay. I set this up on Excel, and I may have messed up. I put in an equation first to solve for change in velocity considering acceleration due to gravity (9.81m/s2) x time. Then I made a column for time, which I kept changing until I got the distance I wanted (6.045m)using the equation...

I teach 9th grade physical science, and we were doing an activity last week investigating whether GPE before an object falls = KE at the point the object hits the ground. This was a pretty crude activity involving dropping things out the window and timing with stop watches, so when the data...