Connect x-Force

By: Luigi Gavino

and
Adrian Garcia

Initial Force
Tennis Ball-Set 1
Data
Tennis Ball=0.5kg
!

Distance:0.001 m
!

Time:0.1 sec

Formula
Distance/Time=Velocity

Acc.= Velocity/Time

IF= Mass xAcc.

Substitution
V=0.001/0.1=0.01

Acc=0.01/0.1=0.1

IF=0.5x0.1=0.05n

Forces
Initial Force=0.05

Set 1
Books
Data
mass= 4kg
Distance=1m
Time= 1sec

Formula

Substitution

Velocity=Distance/Time

V=1/1=1

Momentum=Mass x Velocity

M= 1x4=4n

Answers
Velocity=1m/sec
Momentum=4n

Set 2
Light Markers
Data
mass= 0.05kg
Distance=0.47m
Time= 0.3sec

Substitution

Answers

Velocity=Distance/Time

V=0.47/0.3=1.6

Momentum=Mass x Velocity

M= 0.05x1.6=0.08

Velocity=1.6m/sec
Momentum=0.08n

Formula

Set 3
Thick Markers
Data
mass= 0.1kg
Distance=0.54m
Time= 0.7sec

Formula

Substitution

Velocity=Distance/Time

V=0.54/0.7=0.77

Momentum=Mass x Velocity

M= 0.1x0.77=0.077

Answers
Velocity=0.77m/sec
Momentum=0.077n

Set 4
Dominoes
Data
mass= 0.08kg
Distance=0.4m
Time= 0.5sec

Formula

Substitution

Velocity=Distance/Time

V=0.4/0.5=0.8

Momentum=Mass x Velocity

M= 0.08x0.8=0.064

Answers
Velocity=0.8m/sec
Momentum=0.064n

Set 5
Jenga Pieces
Data
mass= 0.09kg
Distance=0.4m
Time= 0.6sec

Formula

Substitution

Velocity=Distance/Time

V=0.4/0.6=0.7

Momentum=Mass x Velocity

M= 0.09x0.7=0.063

Answers
Velocity=0.7m/sec
Momentum=0.063n

Final Force
Set 5-Bouncy Ball

Data
Ball=0.001kg
!

Distance:0.64 m
!

Time:0.5 sec

Formula
Distance/Time=Velocity

Acc.= Velocity/Time

IF= Mass xAcc.

Substitution
V=0.64/0.5=1.28

Acc=1.28/0.1=12.8

Forces
Velocity=1.28
Acceleration=12.8

IF=0.001x12.8=0.0128n
Final Force=0.0128n

Our Graph

Momentum

Set 1
m=4

Set 2
m=0.08

Set 3

Set 4

Set 5

m=0.077

m=0.064

m=0.063

Sets

Loss Calculations
Force Loss
0.05-0.0128=0.0372n
3.937 is 74.4% of 4, so during the experiment, our original
momentum lost 98.4 of its original power
Comparing Force loss
Luigi and adrian: 74.4%
Ana Paula: 98.8%
Carolina: 96%

Conclusion
After analysing our information, we are somewhat impressed at the huge gap created in
the different momentum calculations in our project. by that, we mean that the difference
between the first and the second sets is massive, we believe that this occurred since the
first set was considerably heavier than the rest, regardless, this whole discovery was a very
interesting experience for us. Aside from the surprising momentum loss, the rest of the
differences were relatively smaller and we fell that they were closer to the percentages to
what we expected, we believe that they were more similar since the measured objects had
similar weights. This is paragraph was written in order to analyse the information found
within our experiment, the information using our and other experiments will be found below.

Now, after analysing our force loss and competing it with the loss of other teams, we can
only say that we are surprised that our loss was so low when compared to others, I am not
very sure for the reasons for this difference, however, I believe that the issue is related to
the mass of the objects, since the mass of our initial and final objects was not so different,
then perhaps the forces acted similarly to both of them, making the force they produce
somewhat closer than what appears to be the average. Regardless, aside from finding
some crazy difference between the information, we had fun creating this project and we
hope that future projects are similar to this one.