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Basically i am working out my error
i did an experiment where i dropped steel balls through glycerol and started the stopwatch at a line and stopped it at a line. The lines are displaced 40cm or 0.4m apart form each other. If a humans reaction time is approximatly 0.3s then my error in speed is 0.3x2/0.4=1.5m/s but this is a massive error as my spheres were moving at less than 1m/s so I am a little confused that my error can be this much.
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i did an experiment where i dropped steel balls through glycerol and started the stopwatch at a line and stopped it at a line. The lines are displaced 40cm or 0.4m apart form each other. If a humans reaction time is approximatly 0.3s then my error in speed is 0.3x2/0.4=1.5m/s but this is a massive error as my spheres were moving at less than 1m/s so I am a little confused that my error can be this much.
Help Needed