Basketball Temperature Lab Report

The higher the pressure, the harder and more firm the football becomes. Conversely, the lower the pressure, the more give the ball has, potentially making it easier to catch in cold, slick weather. But lighter balls are also more influenced by air resistance. (Pigskin Physics)

Bocce ball is a great way to demonstrate the complex wonders of Newton’s three laws in a simple and understandable way. Bocce ball, which was first documented in the year 5200 B.C., is a sport that was first popularized during the roman empire. It wasn’t more than just a leisurely activity until the game found its way back into Italy, once the Roman empire collapsed. Bocce ball was steadily rising and falling in popularity, until a major resurgence in 1896, when it was admitted an olympic sport, and has been part of the summer olympics ever since. Bocce has really become such a widespread sport because you can participate no matter how old, what your race is, or what gender you are. All you need to do is roll a ball. America seemed very separated from the game until a sweep of popularity in California in 1989. Today there is said to be 25,000,000 bocce ball players in the United States. Many aspects of the game of Bocce ball can be relatable to the simple concepts of Newton’s original three laws, from the balls hitting each other (Newton’s third law), to throwing balls harder to increase the force and then slowing down (Newton’s first and second laws). Throughout this essay, I will not only explain what each of Newton’s three laws mean, but provide a real life example of how it could relate to the game of bocce ball.

Again with the same temperatures of one degree, eleven degrees, twenty degrees, thirty degrees, and forty degrees. All the temperatures are in Celsius. The one degree C time is at 24.59 seconds, only two seconds off from the first trial. The eleven degrees C time has 20.39 seconds. At twenty degrees C, the data showed the time was 15.54 seconds. Thirty degrees C had the lowest time of the thirty degrees group, at 8.97. The last temperature was forty degrees C with the lowest time at 7.28 (See appendix two). All the data for trial two supports the hypothesis for this

The bladder inside the ball is what holds the air. The bladders are usually made of rubber or rubber like things. Most balls use valves for air retention.

The hypothesis is that two people of different sizes will have a different temperatures after preforming an activity, this was proven after collecting data from the experiment. The first thing that was noticed in this experiment was the difference in Darryl and Faith's thermal mass temperatures. When looking at the data chart Darryl’s core body temperature was a few degrees higher than Faith’s. The temperatures were taken by using a surface thermometer stick. After the exercises were completed it was shown that after one of the exercises Faith's thermal mass was higher than Darryl's. The exercises that Faith's thermal mass exceled in was when her and Darryl were running up and down the stairs. When running up and down the stairs at different

Each team started by taking an infrared thermometer and recording 5 temperatures of two microhabitats relatively close to one another that may have different temperatures, such as wet sand and a plastic cover adjacent to one another. It was then hypothesized that the fake organism, the marshmallow peep, would experience more thermal stress and greater/faster thermal rise on the plastic than in the opposing microhabitat the wet sand. Two packages of peeps each containing five fake organisms were opened up and tiny I-buttons were embedded on the inside of each peep to measure body temperature over time while in the respective microhabitat. After twenty minutes of having five peeps with five I-buttons planted in each microhabitat, the I-buttons were removed and the teams returned to the lab to extract the data from the I-buttons. Using the I-button software, data from each I-button was downloaded and then exported to excel where statistical analysis and graph work could be completed to see how the results lined up with the stated hypothesis. Inside of the software, it was simple to “start view”, click on the “wizard” tab, click “next”, and press “finish” to start up the mission, and then plug the I-button into the socket, select the software, click on “mission status” and press the quick graph button to see the graph and export the data. The data addresses the hypothesis question because it will allow the team to view the temperature over time and thermal rise in the two opposing microhabitats and this will inform the group as to whether the hypothesis should be supported or refuted. The statistical analysis used on the data included an ANOVA (analysis of variance) consisting of SS, df, MS, F, p-level, and F crit as well as mean and

The covering is backed with multiple layers of lining of polyester or cotton blend which gives the ball its strength, structure, and bounce. The bladder in the ball is what holds the air. Bladders are made of latex rubber or butyl. Most balls use valves for air retention. Your kick transfers more energy to a really stiff ball, compared to a spongy one as less of the energy is lost to deformation of the balls surface.

This experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that a glass of ice will melt quicker when left in higher temperatures. The purpose of this assignment is to determine where a glass of ice should be stored so that the ice will melt at the slowest rate. A student carefully set up this experiment with two identical glasses each containing three ice cubes of equal size and shape. The student then placed one of these glasses in a room with a steady temperature at 74°F and the second glass outside, which held a temperature of 90°F. The independent variable in this experiment is the temperature of the surroundings while the dependent variable, the variable that the student will

All ages in our lifetime have played with some type of ball rather it is a softball, tennis ball or soccer ball any kind of ball you can think is a hollow ball made out of rubber. In order to raise the temperature in the ball to increase the bounces you have to give it a couple of practices to warm the certain object. In this experiment there was a small rubber ball, metal pole, meter sticks and a stopwatch. The goal of this objective was bounce the ball ten times and to record the time of how long the ball would bounce for in each set of data each section of how many times to bounces the ball to get a better outcome then you did the first time by trying different ways rather its using a step stole to get better height or using a measuring

Our experiment was to test whether or not, the amount of air in a soccer ball would affect its travel distance. Along with that, we aimed to find out which amount of air would deliver the furthest distance when the ball was kicked. Which, we believed would be useful and beneficial information for those who play soccer. Especially those who play the sport professionally, for we used the ball size of which FIFA requires for their games. And with this information, they can know how much air to fill their balls with, to gain a greater distance, for the best performance. In order to conduct the experiment, we decided to create and build our own pendulum. Which we did to ensure that the amount of pressure applied to the ball when kicked would be

After viewing and running through the experiment, there was a question that was formed from it. The question was: could this be done with another animal or organism? With understanding, there are certain animals that could show signs when the temperature has been changed. With different types of canine, the sign of heat could be shown by having their tongues out and panting when the environment’s temperature increase. While some organisms could be more tired or tend to be less active because of the heat. When setting up the experiment, a person should use two rooms that contains the temperature of 20 to 25℃. Although, the temperature should be equal for both rooms since the temperature will be the neutral. The control variables should be the

The purpose of this lab was to determine what type of collision (most nearly elastic or most nearly inelastic) different types of balls will have when bounced on the ground. First we dropped each ball onto the surface (Rubber ball, Softball, Mini Pool ball and a Marble ball) and record how high it bounces in meters. We did 3 trials for each ball and we got .76m, .79m, and .78m for Rubber ball, .58m, .52m, and .55m for Softball, .33m, .34m, and .40m for Mini Pool ball, and .25m, .29m, and.25m for Marble ball. We note that whether the ball showed more elastic or inelastic Collison, if the ball bounce up more than it is more elastic, if the ball bounces up less than it is more inelastic. Once we finished doing this we discussed which ball had the best elastic Collison which was Rubber ball.

The majority of people took three tennis balls and put one in the refrigerator, one in room temperature, and one wrapped in a heating pad. The next step they followed, after waiting awhile for the tennis balls to attain the temperature, was that they used a table or a piece of furniture to drop each tennis ball from so that it was fair/accurate each time. Then they recorded these numbers and did this for many trials. Others did something slightly different. They used four tennis balls, each going in a different place. They used different temperatures for three of them, which is what most people did, but then they put the remaining tennis ball into the same warm climate as one of the other balls but, with no moisture around it. I found this interesting because I forgot that moisture could have an affect on the bounce height too. Materials that were used for most of these experiments were very simple. Most of the people used a ruler, tennis balls, a refrigerator, a house/building for room temperature, and a heating pad or

Air pressure can indeed affect the distance that the football will travel. The data from the experiment proved that the more air pressure, or the more inflated the ball is, then the farther the ball will travel. When one tested the lowest air pressure, our results showed that a flat ball will not travel far at all when thrown at a consistent speed. When one inflated the ball only halfway, it traveled significantly farther than a fully deflated ball. Furthermore, when one inflated the ball to the regulated air pressure of the National Football League, it travelled farther than both the fully deflated and halfway deflated ball. The statistics also supported the hypothesis for this experiment. The averages correlated with the distance that

Some experts seem to think that quick exposure cold air can change the PSI in the ball. Although that theory has not been scientifically proven it is