Safe testing
To make this a safe test I only will stand on secure surfaces.
Prediction
I predict that the more paper clips or heavier the helicopter is, the quicker it will fall to the ground.
I believe this because the heavier an object is the quicker it falls to the ground.
Observations
Analysis
The more weight added to the helicopter, the quicker it fell to the ground. It fell slower the less amount of weight added. This was proved when it took 1.53 seconds for 1.99g to fall and 0.965 seconds for 2.94 to fall.
These results show that my prediction that the more weight added, the faster they would fall, was correct. The heavier the helicopter was, the faster it fell to the ground. The lighter the helicopter was, the longer it took to fall top the ground.
From the graph I noticed that there was a steep drop from 2 paper clips to 3 paper clips. I believe this to be because of inaccurate results. If I had preformed more tests of each weight I don’t think I would be experiencing this problem.
Evaluation
I thought this experiment was successful. I proved that my prediction that the more weight added to the helicopter the faster it would fall was correct. This shows that the lighter an object is the slower it falls to the ground.
I don’t think the tests with preformed with 1 and 2 paper clips added were correct as they don’t seem to follow the pattern that the more weight you add you less time it takes to fall. The results of 1 and 2 paper clips did not show this very well as when no paper clips were added it took 1.53 seconds. when 1 paper clip was added it took 1.65 seconds and when 2 paper clips were added it took 1.535 seconds which are both longer than with no paper clips added so I don’t believe that those results are accurate.
If I were to repeat my experiment I would keep the equipment the same because the equipment was perfect to do the experiment with. I wouldn’t change my method either because it worked well for this experiment. I may change the amount of retries I did. I believe if I preformed more test of each weight I would get a even fairer result. I believe it was a fair test as I dropped the helicopter from the same height each time and weighted the helicopter before I dropped each one.
