Question: If projectiles of the same shape and volume increase in weight, will they create an increasingly larger crater when they are dropped on a surface?
Hypothesis: If objects of the same shape and volume increase in weight, then they will create an increasingly larger crater when they are dropped on a surface.
Conclusion: My experiment results show that I have proven my hypothesis correct,
that if objects of the same shape and volume increase in weight then they
will create increasingly larger craters. The overall average crater diameters
produced by all ten experiments/drops were 76 mm for the red ball
(heaviest), 68.1 mm for the blue ball, 63 mm for the orange ball and 57.95
mm for the green (lightest) ball. These results prove my hypothesis.
Some of the discrepancies in each experiment or drop results may have
been caused by my repacking the flour in the plastic bin before each
experiment. Also the projectiles were not perfect spheres. This may have
caused some of the weird data I recorded in my experiments.
Before I did this project I already knew that the speed and size of a
meteor does affect the crater size. The reason I choose to do this project is
because I did not know how projectiles of the same size, moving at the same
speed, but with different weights would affect the size of their craters. I
wanted to find out because I was interested in craters.
So in conclusion I have proven that if objects of the same shape and
volume increase in weight they will create increasingly larger craters.
