'To investigate whether the amount of paper cup cake holders affects the time taken to fall a certain distance'.
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... Abdulrehman JAVAD 11F George Mitchell School (13410) Science Coursework Investigating falling objects Aim: 'To investigate whether the amount of paper cup cake holders affects the time taken to fall a certain distance'. Plan: When I do this experiment, I will drop 1 cake cup from a certain height (which will be kept constant throughout the experiment.) When the cake cup is dropped a stop watch will start, then will be stopped when the cake cup hits the ground. I will then repeat this experiment using 2 cake cups, then three and so on. Altogether I will take 6 different weight readings, each weight reading done 3 times, so I can have a wide range of accurate results to plot on a graph. When doing the experiment, to make sure it is fair I will do the following things: Make sure the cake cup is dropped from the same height each time, if it wasn't then the results














