On August 30, Will Moorman, my lab partner and I completed a vector lab in which we measured the distance between the vectors we created in school and used that information to then find the resultant vector. Although it was cool to see vector addition come alive, some of the problems that we came across were:
- making a correct measurement plan on the map of the school that would achieve the requirements for the lab before we went out to collect our data
- difficulties making our vector point in a single, definite direction (i.e. N, E, S, and W)
- making our vectors a certain size so that they would fit in our plan
If we were to do this lab again, I feel like we would have better results if we collected our data in an area with less abrupt turns and furniture. Also, we would need to add our vectors analytically if we did this lab again because we did not know that we needed to do that for this lab.
Below are pictures of the lab report that we made with our results:
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