I have to conduct an experiment where I am dropping one coffee filter from 5 sig
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Question
I have to conduct an experiment where I am dropping one coffee filter from 5 significantly different heights so as to to measure the relationship between distance (height) and acceleration. Though I am having trouble coming up with a title and hypothesis, as I'm not sure what physics principles are being applied here. So considering I don't know what exactly is being studied here, I am unable to write much of an introduction about this experiment. Could someone please help out with this and clarify what principles are being looked at in this experiment?
This is what I have so far:
Introduction: In this experiment, one coffee filter will be dropped from 5 significantly different heights so as to to measure the relationship between distance and acceleration.
Research Question:
How will increasing the height from which a coffee filter is dropped affect its acceleration towards the ground?
Explanation / Answer
During free falling : acceleration towards ground is constant which is -g (-9.81 m/s2).
As object falls down from a height , its potential energy convers into kinetic energy . hence increase in height will increase the final speed of the falling object.
mgh = (1/2) mvfinal2
vf = [2gh]1/2 here h is the height from which object falls.
Final acceleration depends on final velocity so , object his harder at ground which falls from higher height.
apply this principle in this experiment and also this is answer to the research question.