Methods 2: Week 2
Methods 2 Week 2: 1.) The big question that we explored in the lab this week was, “How can we make a race exciting (where racers finish at the same time) when runners run at different speeds?” In order to answer this question, we set up a race in the conference room. Next, we had members of our group complete the race (5 meters) and time how long it took them to reach the finish marker. After we had the times for all members of our group, we compared the results. We discovered that in order to make any two members of our group finish at the same time, one of two things needed to happen. Either one racer would need to start later, or one would need to travel a short distance. We opted to make one of the runners start later. In order to figure out how much later the other runner needed to start, we subtracted the two runners times, and the difference was the amount of time that the faster runner needed to wait. For example, one of our runners finished in about 5 seconds, and another...