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The student will demonstrate an ability to conduct "Single Component Position Measurement" using an ultrasonic transducer and recording system. Use an ultrasound transducer to measure the distance from the sensor surface to a flat surface. Acquire the sensor voltage at discrete intervals and measure the corresponding distance manually with meter stick. Prepare a formal lab report format, using a format to be used throughout the mechanical engineering lab curriculum and develop good practices for maintaining an engineering logbook.
The student will conduct an experiment on the vertical unconstrained motion of a single body subject to Newton's Law of Gravity, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. The student will be challenged to test the hypothesis of Newton's law of gravity. The student will drop a ball from a height and measure the sensor output (in voltage corresponding to position) as a function of time.
The student will use an existing LabVIEW program employing a start trigger, sampling rate, and stop trigger to measure voltage vs time. Different groups of students will conduct trials with different object mass. Students will be able to use cumulative results across trials and groups to investigate the law.
The student will conduct an experiment on the inclined ramp constrained motion of a single body subject to Newton's Law of Gravity, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Measure the position along an inclined plane as the ball rolls down. Knowing the angle of the plane, determine the vertical and horizontal components of displacement, using trigonometry. Use the LabVIEW program from the preceding week, but now record the angle of inclination for the ramp. Students and groups will conduct a trial at a unique angle.
The student will conduct an experiment on the constrained motion of a system of two bodies (one horizontal motion, one vertical motion, linked over a pulley with a cable), and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Measure the position along one plane as the ball rolls down. Knowing the angle of the plane, determine the vertical and horizontal components of displacement, using trigonometry. Begin to quantify the effect of friction, start looking at multi-body problems, introduce FBDs for two bodies, concept of a system, Use the same LabVIEW program from last week, but now record the angle of inclination for the ramp OR have the horizontal surface be one of varying roughness between groups. Each group of students conducts a trial with a unique feature.
The student will conduct an experiment demonstrating their ability to perform Two Component
Position Measurement, using a video recording device. Use a digital video capture system to measure the x, y position of an artifact using pixel mapping. Acquire images at discrete time stamps. Measure artifact positions manually with meter stick. Use a program to capture video data and position vs time information for a single body. Repeat the first experiment from week 2 3 using video capture rather than ultrasound.
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A Assembled on a horizontal incline
A + A connected to one another in various configurations per group
A Assembled on a horizontal incline + Video

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The student will conduct an experiment on a body in projectile motion in two dimensions, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. The student will shoot a projectile horizontally (or at a defined angle), capture video data, correlate the video data with horizontal and vertical position information, and estimate the projectile position as a function of time.
The student will conduct an experiment on a body in curvilinear motion in two dimensions, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Kinetic energy and Potential Energy conservation in a roller coaster. Students will conduct an experiment of a car on a roller coaster, using video logging to measure position as a function of time. The student will acquire data, compute single body position, velocity, acceleration, KE, PE, and Total E. The student will plot all quantities vs. time.
The student will conduct an experiment on a body in uniform circular motion in two dimensional circular motion, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. The centripetal acceleration lab will be either a car on a circular track, looking down from above, or a person swinging a ball on a rope from the side with the rotational speed or the radius of curvature as independent variables. The student will acquire x-y position data as a function of time.
The student will conduct an experiment on the impact of two bodies in linear motion, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Various trials have blocks with various coefficients of restitution.
Acquire data for the Displacement of each body vs. Time.
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The student will conduct an experiment on the impact of two or more bodies in curvilinear motion, and analyze and interpret the resulting data.
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The student will conduct an experiment on the dynamics of an oscillatory spring/mass system and analyze and interpret the resulting data. In part I of the experiment, students will quantify the force exerted by a spring as a function of displacement, by correlating the displacement vs. dead weight mass applied to determine a spring constant. Students will quantify force vs spring displacement, use calibration to determine spring constant, then use prior lab approach to measure the position of the mass on the spring vs time, and infer the spring extension vs time. Record mass position vs. time for a mass in simple harmonic motion.
The student will conduct an experiment on the simple harmonic motion of an oscillatory pendulum, and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Students will record the position of an encoder count vs. time.
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