N47RS4

Alex LambirthSam Camou

Marcos ConditIsaac Jauregui

May 5, 2012

Our Design

We designed a rig to record wind speeds at higher altitudes with a fan blade passing through a

photogate.

Pretty much a home made Anemometer.

Our Expectations

Our first thoughts were to observe the speed of the wind at 1000 feet and see if the speed is increased

by elevation.

Our hypothesis was that the wind speed would increase with the height

Results

Our results were inconclusive. Due to the labquest’s unknown problem, our data was

corrupted during flight.

Frozen screen

Conclusions

We concluded from watching from the ground that the wind’s intensity did increase with

altitude because of the way the strings angled when they got up to the 1000 feet.

Other than that we do not have any data to back up any conclusions that we have made today.