Class

On Friday, March 4th, 2016 the precalculus class during period F got to take a field trip out in the hallway for a bouncy ball lab. Each group of two or three got the pick what type of ball they wanted to test. There were tennis balls (old and new), a black bouncy ball, a shiny bouncy ball, a golf ball, etc. Each group went out into the hallway and had the tallest person in the group raise their arm as high as they could with the ball of their choice and then we put a sticky note there to mark it. From there, the ball was dropped and caught at a different height (about half of what the height was before) and was marked by a sticky note again, and was repeated multiple times. Then, we went back into the classroom and calculated some results from the exponential decay of our lab and found out that the average decay rate was somewhere about .58.