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Speed, Velocity, Acceleration Lab In this lab you will learn the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Carefully read the lab and follow along. You will have two days to complete this lab. Your answers should be filled in on the “Lab Report” pages. You may work on the practice problems and questions at the end of the lab for homework. Speed Suppose you run a race. How do you describe your run to a friend? Saying that you ran for 20 minutes might not be very helpful to her. She would not know how fast you ran. What your friend needs in order to know how fast you went is your speed. To describe speed you have to know two things: 1) the distance traveled, and 2) the time it took to travel that distance. To calculate speed, all you have to do is divide distance by time. Velocity is just speed in a particular direction. For example, if in 3 hours you ran 6 kilometers west, your velocity was 6 km/3 hours = 2 km/hour west. Notice that the unit label is just the time unit divided by the distance unit. Speed (velocity) = distance/time Now you try some. Write the speeds on the lab report (and don’t forget the unit label). I drove from Dallas to Milwaukee (1300 km) in 16 hours. My cat ran 20 meters in 4 seconds. How fast is he in km/hr? Calculating Speed/Velocity 1) Measure the exact height of the ramp. If you don’t finish the lab today, tomorrow you will need to set up the lab exactly as it was today. Write the height on the lab report. 2) Set up the photogates along the track so they are exactly 20 centimeters apart. Make sure they are angled and positioned correctly, so that the wing of the car will break the light beam. 3) You will be measuring the time it takes for the car to roll between the two photogates. In the LoggerPro program, go to: File – Open – Probes Sensors – Photogates – Pulse Timer (2 gates). Click on collect and roll the car down the ramp to measure the time it takes the car to travel between