Modeling in Science

Walk The Line

Fall Term 2016
Heres a graph made in Moving Man, a PhET simulation produced by the University of
Colorado:

Watch the class Walk the Line

Describe, in as much detail as possible, what the graph above says the man will do.
He will walk forward for one and a half seconds, and then pause. Then walks backwards for 3
seconds pauses for one second and then runs forwards.
In your group of four create an identical graph using your motion detector, Labquest and
Logger Pro software. Put a screenshot of the graph below here:

Now, to the best of your ability

and in complete sentences, please answer the following

questions:

Modeling in Science

Walk The Line

Fall Term 2016
Describe the things your group had to notice or pay close attention to when
they were making an identical graph to the Moving Man graph.
What do you notice about the difference between position velocity graphs?
What do you wonder about these differences?
What did you think was most challenging for people about Walk the Line?

Describe the things your group had to notice or pay close attention to when they were
making an identical graph to the Moving Man graph.
In my group we had to pay close attention to the speed, and getting it correct.
What did you notice about the difference between position and velocity graphs?
With the velocity graph it doesnt matter where you start, versus the position graph where it does
matter.
What do you wonder about these differences?
All of my questions have been answered about this, so I dont really wonder anything right now.
What did you think was the most challenging for people about Walk the Line?
I found it difficult to get timing right and try to get the graph similar to the original.