Lab 1

In order to discover what our average walking speeds were we decided to measure how fast we walk towards the motion detector 3 times and average the 3 to find an average speed.

In order to calculate the speed we measured how long it took us to cover the distance, for example if we covered the 2 meters in 2 seconds then we walked a meter per second for that test. In order to obtain a more accurate measurement we proceeded to repeat this experiment 3 times and average the results to obtain a more accurate answer.

My 3 results were, 1. 3 meters in 4.4 seconds, or 1.4 meters per second, 3 meters covered in 4.2 seconds, or also 1.4 meters per second, and finally 3 meters covered in 4 seconds, or 1.3 meters per second.




Overall I covered 9 meters in 12.5 seconds, and possessed speeds of 1.4, 1.4, and 1.3 meters per second, so by averaging that number by dividing it by the 3 tries we get my average walking speed to be 1.36 meters per second.