Graphing Your Motion Lab

The following was a test on velocity, and speed, using motion sensors.


For the next image, we needed to walk slowly away from the sensor to graph our progress. After, we walked away quickly from the sensor. The top three ending points are from the latter experiment.

 The bottom three lines are shallower because the movements weren't as abrupt, where as the higher lines went higher, faster.

 For this image, we had tried to match the staggered line. As you can see, we had some issues with the final seconds, causing spikes in our data.

When we attempted to match the line, we were to move close to the sensor, stop, then slowly move back in time with the image.

For this image, we needed to slowly walk backwards. This time, we were graphing velocity.

 In this example, we walked backwards swiftly while graphing velocity.

 This was a futile attempt the line while measuring velocity. Our attempt was at first to jump, then to jerk backwards, but we determined that the sensors were extremely sensitive, and we needed to hold a continuous pace of movement.