Buggy Lab

In class this week, we did the buggy lab to show the difference between position and distance.  For part one, my group measured how far the buggy went every ten seconds from a reference point for a minute.  For part two, we did the same thing but almost double the speed.  Both of these created linear graphs.  Other groups had different scenarios for part two, like moving the the buggy a meter behind their reference point.  This created graphs with the same slope and y-intercepts as the starting points.  (0,0) would be the reference point.  In class we discussed if we should add (0,0) as a point into excel but i don't think we should because the y-intercept would show if you were off like if you didn't actually start the buggy on the reference point.  A question asked in class was if the graph was affected by either speed or velocity.  I think it was speed because it didn't really matter from which way the car was coming and some of the cars went off track to the left or right but nothing in the slope displayed that.  I understood everything pretty well so I don't have any further questions.