Displacement, velocity and acceleration of a falling ball.

Consider the video on the left. It shows a ball, at rest, being dropped from a height.

By pausing the video it is possible to see the time and displacement of the ball as it falls.

1. Using the graph paper provided roduce a:

- displacement vs time graph

- velocity vs time graph

2. Calculate the acceleration of the ball due to Earth's gravitational field.

We have captured four reference points along the ball's path at the following times.

3.12 seconds. Click to see the image

3.15 seconds. Click to see the image

3.28 seconds. Click to see the image

3.30 seconds. Click to see the image

Create a properly formatted table of data.

Use the graph paper on the following pages to construct the graphs.

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