Flying Footballs!
Which size football can fly through the air the farthest distance? If the size of the ball does affect the distance traveled, then the smallest ball should travel the greatest distance, according to the hypothesis. In conducting the experiment, the procedures followed were; 1. Obtain three different size footballs; 2. Utilize a large slingshot for balls; 3. Launch each ball once from the same line for trial one and record the distances the balls have travel; 4. Repeat step three, but label it trial two; 5. Repeat step four but label it trial three; and 6. Average out the numbers to prove which ball traveled the furthest consistently throughout the experiment. The independent variable was the size of the footballs. The dependent variable was the distance traveled. The control group is the regulation size football. The experimental group was the other sizes of footballs. The control variables are the height, power, and location.
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Ball 1 flew through the air like a race car. Ball 2 fell to the ground faster, most likely due to weight. Ball 3 was hard to get to stay in the slingshot, but indeed still went farther than ball 2. In trial 2 and trial 3, ball 2 and 3 each somehow got hit with the front side edge of the slingshot causing a strong downforce on the ball. Those two balls, were not quite able to travel down the field very well. Ball 1 increased distance more than a miraculous 10 meters on trial 2. Ball 2 from trial 1 to trial 2, significantly dropped about a poor 7 meters.
The average distance from ball 1, was a shocking 30 meters. The average distance from ball 2, was a low 12.6 meters. The average distance from ball 3, was surprisingly 15.8 meters. There was a pattern in distance for ball 1 going; short, long, and a short distance again. There was an outlier in trial 1 ball 2, where the ball went just about 7 meters more than both other trials, due to extraneous