Science Fair Project

Airplane Science

Physical Science

Hunter Griffin and Christian Glosser

Statement of the Problem

The statement of the problem is how adding one and two paper clips to the mass of the plane would affect the length it flies.

Project Overview

We laid down yard sticks and threw planes, and then we measured the length the plane flew, then we wrote down the lengths.

Variables

·  Independent variable: the airplane

·  Dependent variable: distance that they go

·  Constant variables:

·  Control group: This is the group used to compare with the independent variable. State why the CG makes logical sense for the experiment by giving a reason for the selection.

Hypothesis

The plane with two paper clips will go the farthest because it weights the most

Materials

·  2 paper planes

·  1 airplane

·  A chart to write down the information

·  11 yard sticks

·  A writing utensil

. Photos

Data/Observations (Analyzes)

Airplane trials / trial 1 / trial 2 / trial 3 / trial 4 / trial 5 / average
no clip / 460 / 790 / 549 / 510 / 560 / 573.8
1 clip / 545 / 996 / 608 / 680 / 437 / 555.2
2 clips / 898 / 532 / 445 / 767 / 826 / 693.6

Conclusion

After our many throw we discovered that when the plane has a good amount of weight it will travel farther. One paper clip made it go farther but two slowed it down and none of the planes gave it enough weight to travel a long distance.

Possible Experimental Errors

During our experiment some possible errors might be that the measurements might be a little off but not enough to effect the average. What might have caused this is that the sticks might have been crooked causing us not to get a perfectly accurate reading.

Applications and commendations

Next time it would help to make sure there are no possibilities of errors. Also we may try and make a better type of paper airplane and make a duplicate of that plane and try flying both of them to make the readings more accurate