In this lab we wanted to see what the effect of gravity on a ball that is rolling down a plane. We put together a ram and put one end on top of a chair that was about eighteen inches tall. We then rolled a ping pong ball down the ramp and measured the distance from the end of the ramp at certain time intervals. The time intervals being one through five seconds. We ran this three times and recorded the data of each trial. We then put in the results into excel, made several plots of the position,velocity and acceleration versus time. We then put the same results into matlab, created vectors and plotted velocity and acceleration versus time.bb
File:Pingpongballlab.pdf