How Fast Do You Walk?—Measuring Distance with Sensors |
Tutorials > How Fast Do You Walk?—Measuring Distance with Sensors In this tutorial you will gather data from a motion detector sensor. After the data is gathered, you will construct a mathematical model of the physical situation. What You NeedA Vernier motion sensor—either Go! Motion or Go! Link/LabPro with a motion detector sensor. Making MetersA meter is a Fathom object that connects to a sensor. This experiment requires a distance meter.
The new meter gets the name Distance and begins reporting the distance. Setting Up the Fathom ExperimentIn Fathom an experiment is represented by a collection connected to one or more meters or sliders. 3. Make a new, empty collection. 4. Drag the plug from the Distance meter and drop it on the collection. Notice that the name of the collection becomes Experiment with Distance and that the collection icon changes to show that the collection is an experiment collection. Also, the inspector for the collection opens to the Experiment panel. 5. Make a case table for the experiment collection. The case table has a column for each of the meters, but no data have yet been gathered.
9. Ask a partner to click the Turn Experiment On button.
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