Aim: See how many cars are speeding past the school.
Method:
1. measure the distance from a power pole to power pole.
2. Time how long it takes a car to travel this distance.
-flag person indicates when car passes their pole
-timer person starts a timer when the flag person swings the flag down and stops when car passes their pole.
-writer person writes down times
3.collect 10 times
4.calculate speed in m/s counter to km/hr
5.are there any speeders?
The speed on this road is 50 as you can see there are some speeders.
Results
car 1- 69.84
car 2-21.24
car 3-33.12
car 4-50.4
car 5-48.96
car 6-41.76
car 7-47.16
car 8-45.36
car 9- 62.64
I expected to see some speeders and I was correct.
