On Sept. 9 and 10, AP Physics classes performed a lab about projectile motion in order to understand and visualize how to find horizontal velocity and determine how fast an object travels from side to side.

“It was organized,” junior Malar Sivakumar said. “We did our own thing and created our own producers so it’s based on the group. We measured the distance for projectile motion.”

The lab was set up with a stand and a ramp to drop the metal ball and a meter stick to measure the distances.

“The students have to measure vertical height and horizontal range and find the slope so they get the velocity at which the object is falling,” physics teacher Akshara Sudhakaran said. “The lab was successful since most of the students were able to plot the graph and find the horizontal velocity. The lab gets more hands on activity for the students.”

Students’ labs are based off of how the AP Physics test will be,  and they work with the people together at their table during these labs.

“You are supposed to find the variables that you want and write a procedure based on how you can find these variables,” junior Harvey Flynn said. “Then you test it by using the procedures that you make and use your measurements to find your conclusion. With that we learned that the different heights we dropped things from can change the distance to which things fall.”