Final Lab report

Megan McLaughlin, Savasia Mangual, Briannie Castillo Exit Project 802 Moon Following
Abstract:

In our exit project is about the traveling of the moon. We wanted to know how far the moon traveled across the sky in a half an hour. WE measured the separation of the moons in inches.
Question:

How far does the moon travel in a curtain amount of time? And is >it the same distance? Hypothesis:

Our hypothesis is that the moon will at least travel a little bit in an hour. We are not sure how much but, that is what we are going to find out. And because we do not know how much it travels in a certain amount of time, if it does we do not know if the distance will be the same. Materials: (Megan's Balcony)
Empty Paper Towel Roll Transparent Graph paper 3 Sharpies A small chair (to locate where we were standing before) Materials: (Savasia's Roof) Empty Paper Towel Roll Transparent Graph paper 3 Sharpies Protractor Straw String Bobby Pin Procedure: (On Megan's Balcony)
1. We gathered the materials were Paper towel Roll, Permanent >Markers, Transparent piece of graph paper 2. Then we took a small chair placed it on the floor. 3. Then you stand on it. 4. Then you take your paper towel telescope look up at the sky and try to >make the center of the moon fit in the hole at the end of the paper towel >telescope. 5. Then that's when the next person comes in handy this person will take >the transparency graph paper and placed it on the hole of the paper >towel. 6. Then you take your marker and make a dot in the center of the moon on >the transparent graph paper. You will know because the person who is holding >the paper towel telescope will indicate it to you. 7. Then you come back in an hour and repeat the same procedure as many times >as you want to each hour. 8. Once your done with that you take your >transparency graph paper and take a good look at it. You try to compare and >see if the moon moved or not. .Then anything you notice you write down. Procedure: (On Savasia's Roof) 1. We go up to the roof top, and set the telescope, and the transparent >graph paper . 2. We set up the telescope to the spot to where we can see the moon in the >best place. 3. We measured the angle where the moon is to us, and then we record that angle. 4. Look through the telescope and make sure that the moon is aliened with >the telescope. 5. We use the transparent graph paper, and draw where the moon is at that >hour. 6. The next hour we go back up and look through the telescope and see if >the moon moved away from it. 7. Then we draw another moon onto the graph after the 2nd hour. 8. Repeat step 6 and 7 for about 2 more hours. 9. After about 5 days we do all the calculations. We use a ruler to measure >how far away the two drawings of the moons that is on the graph paper. 10. Then we have scale the drawings up, as if it was in real life. 11. We repeat this for about a month. 12. At the end of the month we compare >all the measurements and find out if moon travels the same way each time. Experiment: On February 28th we were on Megan's roof and we were able to see the moon two times. At 6:40 and at 7:40, because when we went back to her balcony to collect data the moon had moon around the building and we weren't able to >see it from where we were located. February 28th, 2007 Time: 6:40 We at Megan's Balcony Trying to Find the Moon February 28th, 2007 Time: 7:40 Came back an hour later and we placed ourselves at the same spot we were at before and the moon wasn't there it moved but we were able to see it. February 28, 2007 Time: 8:40: We came back an hour later and did not find the moon. On March 1rst, 2007 we were on Savasia's Roof and had great view of the >moon at 6:40, 7:10, and 7:40, but then it got kind of hard to see at 8:10 >because the clouds were covering it. March 1rst, 2007 Time: 6:40 March 1rst, 2007 Time: 7:10
We are on top of Savasia's Roof trying to We have a Good View of the Moon. Look for a good place to have a good view of the moon. March 1rst, 2007 Time: 7:40 Another Good view of the Moon March 1rst, 2007 Time: 8:10 this time it took us a little longer to find the moon because the clouds were
Covering it but lucky with our great eye sight we were able to see it. On March 7th, 2007 we went to Savasia's Roof but there was no sign of the >moon. We even came back 30 minutes later to see if it would've come out but >no. We think that the reason for this is because we did not come earlier. March 7th, 2007 on this day we went like around 8:40 on Savasia's Roof and no sign of the >moon. We were looking everywhere for the moon, but nothing. Pictures of us working in on our project during class:View full size View full size View full size Results: Analyze: The data above is showing that on February 28th at 6:40 to 7:40 the moon moved on paper inches. But in real life it actually moved kilometers. Then we continued to do it from 7:40 to 8:40 when we went back at 8:40 to continue with our procedure we were not able to continue because the moon had moved to the back of the building. And we weren’t able to see the moon anymore because we were in the balcony. So the amount of kilometers moved from the time of 7:40 to 8:40 was undefined. So that was the end of that day.

On March 1rst we repeated the procedure but a couple of things were changed. To start of we weren't on a balcony anymore we were on a roof. And another thing that changed was the time; we decided to do a moon check every 30 minutes because before it was every hour. And this time we did angle measurements to. We started at the same time which was 6:40 to 7:10 from that time to the next time on paper it moved inches but in real life it moved kilometers. This data is also showing that from 7:10 to 7:40 on paper it moved inches. But in real life it moved kilometers. That is what the data above is showing. Conclusion:
We feel that our hypothesis was both proven and not proven. We feel this because the moon did move across the sky but, it was not unnoticeable. You could perfectly tell where the moon started out, by our measurements, and where the moon was when we got back on the roof. You could see that there was a major difference, between the two moons,