On Monday, the class did a generator lab. This lab was to show how adding energy increased voltage. We were given a flashlight that you had to shake to light it. However, it was modified because the flashlight was connected to a generator. We then had to shake the flashlight a different number of times over the course of 30 seconds to see how many volts were getting produced.
The lab required the flashlight be shook a different number of times. We had take at least five data sets. After we collected our data, we had to look at the relationship between the number of shakes and the sum of the squares voltage. The graph has a line that is trending upward which means the more we shook the flashlight, the more the sums of the squares voltage was. This makes sense, the harder you shake, or the more energy that a person uses, the faster the object shakes and creates voltage. The chart below shows what the relationship looks like.