Velocity and Acceleration Lab


The purpose of this lab was to have students calculate velocity and acceleration for a toy car and a Hall's car rolling down a ramp and then across a smooth surface.  Students will perform three trials to see how far their car travels in 1 sec., 2 sec., 3 sec., 4 sec., and 5 sec.  Students then graphed their distance versus time data, calculated average velocity of the car for their trials, and also calculated the acceleration for the time frames 0-2 sec., 2-4 sec., and 4-5 sec.