Step 1 of 2 Each person in your group obtains a ruler and at least one ticker tape segment from the staff. All the tape segments were generated using the same ticker timer. Do not write on or fold the tapes. If a ticker timer is available, examine it so that you are familiar with how it works.

Step 2 of 2
The common way of analyzing the motion of the objects is to perform a ticker tape analysis. The trial of dots provides a history of the object’s motion. The distance between dots on a ticker tape represents the object’s position change during that time interval. A large distance between dots indicates that the object was moving fast during that time interval. A small distance between dots means the object was moving slowly during that time interval.

Velocity is the change in displacement. The dots are equally spaced. Therefore, the motion represented by the segment of tape is moving with constant speed.