Assignment Details

Spinners Investigation - Graph + Conclusion

Year 2022-23

7V-Physics

Date Due

Dec. 14, 2022

Additional Info
Evening Year 7,

You have two tasks, unless you have already done the first one, in which case you have one;

  1. For the Spinners investigation, please finish off and scan in your graphs, and then write the conclusion.  
    • IF YOU WERE NOT IN LESSON FOR THE INVESTIGATION, you may copy my incomplete version that I have just put on the content library - you will need to calculate the mean, then plot the graph and draw a line of best fit (you may do this on the iPad 
    • If scanning them in, do it in a well lit room, and use the DOCUMENT scan feature on OneNote to crop the image so it is clear to see your work.
    • For the graph; 
      • Length of spinners wings (in cm) on the X-Axis
      • Time to Fall (in s) on the Y-Axis.  
      • Remember your Graph should include;
        • Title:  "A graph to show the relationship between..."
        • Even scales on the axes
        • Labels on the axes
        • Line/Curve of best fit (not dot-to-dot)
        • Units on the Axes)
        • X - Points with an 'X', (circled if they are anomalies that your line of best fit is ignoring)
      • Remember, you probably won't plot the points in the same order you did them... You probably recorded results with the longest wing first, so be careful to plot your points carefully... You are expecting the time to fall to increase as the wings get longer (ISH!!! - It WONT be perfect!!)
    • For a "Conclusion"
      • This should go after your graph, and should be three sentences MAX;
      • "My graph shows that as the length of the wings increases, the time taken to fall................. "
      • "This (does / does not) support my prediction."
      • "I had some anomalous results that do not fit my pattern.  One way I could improve / extend my investigation is to....."
  2. Finish completing the table of data from the tiker tape from today, calculating the speed of each section.  If you weren't in, the slides are annotated in the content library, but you will need to get results off someone to catch up.
    • Remember, there is no need to draw a graph for todays practical