This was a class lab where Professor Wolf wanted us to find the centripetal acceleration of a spinning disk.
Unfortunately the apparatus is kind of blocked. However, it was basically a disk spinning on a tripod.
Each group was supposed to find the time it took for the disk to rotate 4 cycles.
We got the time by taking the average of each groups estimated time it took for four cycles.
There were a lot of possible errors as people can have a different start and stop location. Everybody probably did not 100% accurately get the exact time it rotated 4 cycles. Although it is kind of blocked, in the first image we were able to get a graph that shows the relationship between angular speed and centripetal acceleration.
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