Monday, July 6, 2009

Light lab blog 7-6-09

Well here we are, blogging about our light lab. Our group found that we did a good job with the correlation of light losing intensity with distance. Our precision was not so good. We had a slope of -1 ( actually -.9801) instead of -2. both or our graphs really showed the trend quite well especially the power graph. The linear graph......eh... not so much. Did we get what we expected? No, we thought we'd get something closer to the inverse square law. We obviously were off by just a bit.....well.... let's say a lot. But remember the graphs looked good. Reasons for errors could have been the external light. We were maxing out our probe at 6cm way. We also noticed our lightbulb was set crooked in the light source. Heard that another group did really well. How'd you do it?
Look forward to reading your comments. Time for supper.
Signing off,
Kim Borkowski

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