Assignment Details

1 - Dropping Investigation Write Up

Year 2024-25

10D-Physics - (m/th)

Date Due

Feb. 12, 2025, 8:30 a.m.

Additional Info
(I’m really sorry I put the wrong due date on for this, so I have adjusted the new due date to give you time!!)

I have set this to be due after our lesson on Monday so you can ask any questions you may have during the lesson. You won’t have any lesson time on this this week, we will be moving on to Hookes Law this week.

YOUR HOMEWORK TASK;
In OneNote; Unit 1 > Lesson 12 - Terminal Velocity
Complete; 1 - Dropping Investigation Write Up

Ensure each section is complete.
Remember you have guides for what should be in each section on the slides from the lesson in the content library.

But a summary, the most common advice for the following sections is outlined below;
  1. Prediction; 
    • A single sentence along the lines of “I predict that as “X” increases, “Y” will… (where X and Y are your independent and dependent variables)
  2. Hypothesis;
    • A short paragraph with some Physics/theory to explain/justify your prediction
  3. Conclusion; as a minimum it should have the following (but may have more if you try plotting other things to define the relationship in greater depth by plotting extra supplementary graphs)…
    • “My results showed that as “X” increases, “Y” [increases/decreases] . It is [linear / non-linear]”
    • “This does / does not support my prediction”
  4. Evaluation;
    • Difficulties in your experiment
    • What you would do differently next time / or, if it went well, how you could extend/expand the investigation if you had more time
    • If it didn’t support your hypothesis, this would be your chance to suggest some things that explain why it didn’t (either an error in your method that only came to light as you collected your results, or maybe a suggestion of other factors affecting your dependent variable that you weren’t aware of that would need further investigation - remember, it is FINE in science to get surprising results, that is exactly how good science investigations are meant to work!!)