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The document describes a learning activity on free-fall motion. Students will throw a small ball or crumpled paper upwards and time how long it takes to fall using a stopwatch. They will repeat this three times to collect data on time, final velocity, and distance for each trial. Students will then analyze the data, explain any gaps between trial times, and draw a conclusion on free-fall motion.

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(M) Learning Activity - Free Fall Experiment-1

The document describes a learning activity on free-fall motion. Students will throw a small ball or crumpled paper upwards and time how long it takes to fall using a stopwatch. They will repeat this three times to collect data on time, final velocity, and distance for each trial. Students will then analyze the data, explain any gaps between trial times, and draw a conclusion on free-fall motion.

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NAT S213

Physical Science
Midterm
Learning Activity – Free-fall Motion

Name: Section:
Free-fall Motion

A free falling object is an object that is falling under the sole influence of gravity. Any object that is being acted
upon only by the force of gravity is said to be in a state of free fall. There are two important motion
characteristics that are true of free-falling objects:
 Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance.
 All free-falling objects (on Earth) accelerate downwards at a rate of 9.8 m/s2.

Materials needed: Instructions:


 Small Ball or crumpled paper (ball)  The student will go outside their homes, and in
 Stopwatch hand is the small ball or crumpled paper, and
 Open area, or outside your home the stopwatch.
 The student may ask someone to help, but they
will only hold the stopwatch.
 Student must throw the ball as high as he/she
can, and at the same time the person holding
the stop watch will click it to start the timer.
 Once the ball hits the ground, the person
holding the stopwatch will stop the timer.
 The student must repeat the process three (3)
times to get three (3) different data.
 After gathering the data, the student will
compute for the distance and final velocity.
Documentation:
Pictures of the process

Data:

Time Final Velocity Distance


First Trial
Second Trial
Third Trial
NAT S213
Physical Science
Midterm
Learning Activity – Free-fall Motion

Questions:

1. During the activity was there a huge gap from the time between the different trials? If yes, explain what
could have cause the gap between the times of the trials, and if not, also explain why there was no gap
between them.

Conclusion:

Solution/Computations

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