Thrown+ball+with+Motion+Detector

IB PHYSICS > IB IA EXPERIMENTS > YEAR 13 IA 2008-10 =THROWN BALL WITH MOTION DETECTOR= Set up the motion detector between 1 and 2 metres from the ground. Drop a ball vertically below the detector so that several bounces are recorded. Use the d-t and v-t data to plot graphs in Excel and to calculate the acceleration of free-fall for each bounce. Two possible methods are to print out the v-t graph large and manually calculate the accelerations or in the spreadsheet to identify the data which represents free-fall and plot a different graph with a linear trendline for each bounce.