Final (t,y) graph
This was the graph we had at the end of the first day of data analysis on our distance and time data sets from Tracker on the falling Angry Bird. Note that Microsoft Excel has been able to fit a parabola very closely to our data. We're going to start tomorrow by trying to get the slope at each data point (to generate a (t,v) graph) and to start explaining what each term in this polynomial means, physically. Note that I had students take a screenshot of Excel before leaving class. Because we're going to continue to manipulate the data, this is good practice just to make sure we don't do something to delete the data.
Final (t,y) graph
This was the graph we had at the end of the first day of data analysis on our distance and time data sets from Tracker on the falling Angry Bird. Note that Microsoft Excel has been able to fit a parabola very closely to our data. We're going to start tomorrow by trying to get the slope at each data point (to generate a (t,v) graph) and to start explaining what each term in this polynomial means, physically. Note that I had students take a screenshot of Excel before leaving class. Because we're going to continue to manipulate the data, this is good practice just to make sure we don't do something to delete the data.