What a super Science experiment, Aaliyah! You have presented and explained your work really clearly. You made your tests fair by dropping the objects from the same head height each time and you ran a second round of tests when the results didn’t plan out as you expected. Great that the slow mo function helped you out too!
Just be sure that you realise that objects appear to fall at different rates, not because they have different weights or masses but because of air resistance. That is why the pen fell quicker than the heavier pound coin – the pen was vertical, the pound coin was horizontal. Perhaps you could see how quickly the pound coin falls if you dropped it vertically?
What a super Science experiment, Aaliyah! You have presented and explained your work really clearly. You made your tests fair by dropping the objects from the same head height each time and you ran a second round of tests when the results didn’t plan out as you expected. Great that the slow mo function helped you out too!
Just be sure that you realise that objects appear to fall at different rates, not because they have different weights or masses but because of air resistance. That is why the pen fell quicker than the heavier pound coin – the pen was vertical, the pound coin was horizontal. Perhaps you could see how quickly the pound coin falls if you dropped it vertically?
Have another watch of this…https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsxxsbk/articles/zxw6gdm
And this one should help too…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxcx35x5L9Y
It’s the resistance of air pushing against objects that really affects how fast/slow they fall.
Well presented Aaliyah!