I) SECTION ONE: \"Ruler drop and catch method\" Materials: plastic or paper rule
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I) SECTION ONE: "Ruler drop and catch method" Materials: plastic or paper ruler Introduction: Your reaction time affects your performance in many everyday activities - from driving a car to playing sports to catching something that you drop. Reaction time is the amount of time between an event and your response during this lab. to it. You will need to work with one other person 1. One person will hold a meter stick vertically between the thumb and index finger of the other person's open hand. The ruler should be held so that the zero mark is between your fingers and the 1 cm mark is above it. 2. The person catching the ruler should not be touching the ruler and their catching hand should not be moving in any way. The forearm of the person waiting to catch the ruler should be resting on the edge of the table. 3. Without warning release the ruler, so that it falls between the thumb and finger of the person catching the ruler 4. The person catching should catch the ruler as quickly as possible. 5. Record the distance the ruler has fallen through the catcher's fingers. 6. Perform at lcast 10 trials. Remember to convert centimeters to meters (1 m = 100 cm). So, divide your centimeter measurements by 100 to get meters (m). Analysis: Use the kinematic cquationAx (Ara(Ar) to solve for your reaction time, ·The variable va initial velocity, is zero because you are releasing the meter stick from rest. So, the equation can be solved for time, yielding an answer of where Ax is the distance the meter stick fell through your grasp and a -g -9.82 1 In the table below, record the drop distances Ar 2. For each Ar value in the first column, calculate 1 using the equation above. Enter the values in the second column 3. Calculate your average reaction time and enter this in the last line.Explanation / Answer
Hi, This is a simple experiment to calculate reaction time. As you didn't provide any data regarding delta x in the table , it would be impossible to calculate reaction time. You have the formula, just input your values of delta x in the formula to calculate reaction time and then add all the reaction times and divide by number of reading taken to get average reaction time.
However, I played the game on the link provided. I recorded my reaction time for five events and they are below ,
0.283 , 0.267, 0.333, 0.385, 0.225
The average reaction time is 0.283 + 0.267 + 0.333 + 0.385 + 0.225 / 5 = 0.37325
Now , the factors affecting the reaction time -
While playing this game, I noticed that even a smallest distraction can affect reaction time. Basically reaction time is the amount of time it takes for a person to respond to stimuli, or to perform simple reflexive functions. There are plethora of factors which can affect our reaction time. Some main factors are
Age , Sleep deprivation, Fatigue, Distraction, Surrounding environment, stimulating drugs, alcohol, stress, muscular tension or arousal is the main factor means how attentive we are.
Last question can be answered with repsect to 1 and 2. Just compare your average time from both the questions and see if they are consistent.