In my team meeting, we went though what we want to present to the high school students. First consideration was to choose an experiment to perform in front of the students. We finally settled on falling objects experiment. This experiment combines Newton’s second law (F= m*a) with wind resistance (drag) in order to relate our project to sustainability. We will be using NXT with two sensors placed in the starting placed and the end place which is the ground. The results we are trying to get are the velocity, acceleration, and time of the falling objects. We divided the work to three parts as to save time. Each part was given to two or one of our team members. Wind resistance is the main point behind the experiment because it is relevant to both the experiment and sustainability.
Using falling objects and wind resistance as the topic for your project was a very interesting idea. Wind resistance is definitely an important topic, especially with its ability to increase gas mileage in cars. This will be important because cars are required to increase their gas mileage for the future.