Q. How do you measure a ticker tape?
The ticker timer and speed The distance is fairly easy to find, use a ruler, but if the object is moving quickly the time it takes will be hard to measure. The ticker timer makes dots on a paper tape every fiftieth of a second. So if a piece of tape is pulled through the timer for a second there will be 50 dots on it.
Q. What is the time interval between consecutive dots on a ticker tape?
0.1 sec
You should practice a couple of times before you switch on the spark timer. Note that 10 Hz means 10 cycles/second and the time for one cycle is 0.1 sec. Therefore, the time interval between consecutive dots on the ticker tape is thus 0.1s (Dt in equation 1 is 0.1 sec).
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- Q. How do you measure a ticker tape?
- Q. What is the time interval between consecutive dots on a ticker tape?
- Q. How are ticker timers used to calculate acceleration?
- Q. How can you find acceleration from ticker tape?
- Q. How to calculate the velocity of a ticker timer tape?
- Q. Which is a controlled variable in ticker tape?
- Q. How is ticker tape used to measure slope?
Q. How are ticker timers used to calculate acceleration?
Measure the height of the triangle, using the units of the velocity axis, which are centimetres per second (cm/s). Divide the height of the triangle, in centimetres per second, by the base, in seconds. This gives you the average acceleration in centimetres per second per second (cm/s 2 ).
Q. How can you find acceleration from ticker tape?
Finding Acceleration. Acceleration of motion can be determined by using ticker tape through the following equation: Caution!: t is the time taken from the initial velocity to the final velocity. Example: The ticker-tape in the figure above was produced by a toy car moving down a tilted runway.
Q. How to calculate the velocity of a ticker timer tape?
The velocity of a section of ticker timer tape can be found by knowing the time and displacement and applying the formula: E.g.: Velocity using interval 1: Velocity using interval 2: We might expect the answers to be exactly the same as the distance between each of the drops is the same indicating the velocity is constant.
Q. Which is a controlled variable in ticker tape?
Controlled Variable: the ramp, the timer, the cart releaser, the testing environment, length of ticker tape, the angle of the ramp. Independent: The average velocity of the cart per interval. Dependent: The total displacement of the cart.
Q. How is ticker tape used to measure slope?
A long tape is attached to a moving trolley and threaded through a device that places a tick upon the tape at regular intervals of time. The movement of a trolley down a slope was investigated using ticker tape with a frequency of 50 Hz. The ticker tape produced 50 dots per second. The 14 cm length of the ticker tape was cut into four strips.
