Activity 2: Centripetal Acceleration 9/24

In this lab activity we measured an acceleration at different omegas (ω). The acceleration came from logger pro, and as a class we took the time for 3 rotations and took the average. We then graphed acceleration vs ω^2 and found the linear relationship, the slope, to be 0.1831+ 0.005.
The linear relationship is the radius of the circle. When measuring the radius we found that it was about 0.19 m. The calculated radius we found was 0.18 m + 5%.  The experiment proves the relationship between our acceleration and ω^2.

Our data along with the graph that shows the relationship between acceleration and ω^2. The equation a = Ax is similar to y = mx, where A is the slope. The slope is the radius of the circle.