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3-016-FallingCoffeeFilters-ModelingScenario

Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

Keywords: resistance Free Body Diagram coffee filter force graviity falling object

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Resource Image We are given data on the time and position of a stack of coffee filters as it falls to the ground. We attempt to model the falling mass and we confront the different resistance terms and models.

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We are given data on time and position of a free falling stack of coffee filters. The data offered is from an experiment to model a falling stack of 12 commercial coffee filters. Each coffee filter has mass 0.01908 kg for total stack mass m = 12*0.01908 = 0.22896 kg.

The data was collected with a Vernier Software & Technology Motion Detector on 20 February 2010 at the United States Air Force Academy CO where the acceleration due to gravity is g = 9.78976 m/s2.

 

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Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

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