How To Write A Pbis Report

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Dear Cereal Company President- According to our investigations, observations(data) and research from our PBIS textbook we recommend that if you want a slow and stable falling whirligig then the whirligig needs two paper clips on the stem and long blades. Based on our evidence from our whirligig experiment, the longer the blade length, the longer it took to reach the ground. Based on our data table, we found that when we used the longer blade length, the average fall time was about 2.55 seconds for the whole class. On the other hand, we found that the average of the small blade length was about 2.1 seconds also, for the class. This happened because air resistance occurs during the fall of the whirligig. When you increase the length of the blades you increase the surface area of the blades. This increase in surfaces area results in a greater number of collisions between the air molecules and the blades. The greater number of collisions creates a larger push upward on the bottom of the blades. Thus, increasing the blades size and creating larger air resistance according to page 55 in the PBIS textbook. That is why the …show more content…

From the data table, we found that the more paper clips the faster it will fall taking average 2.10 seconds to reach the ground for the class when the whirligig had 4 paper clips on it. However, when the whirligig had only one paper clips it took an average of 2.4 seconds to fall to the ground for the class. This happened because the more something weighs, the greater relationship it has with gravity. The more weight something has the less air resistance can pull up on it and counter gravity but when less are used less gravity is pulling down on it making it float more. Which why fewer paper clips used on the whirligig the more time it takes to fall to the

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