Paintball Lab Report

Conclusion The hypothesis for the best angle to shoot a paintball to achieve the farthest distance possible was rejected.The data from the experiment that supports this conclusion is, the distance of the paintball that was shot from a 35 degree angle traveled, on average, 126.56 meters. This distance is 2.84 meters greater than the average distance of the paintball shot at 30 degrees. The average distance of the paintballs shot at 35 degrees was also, 15.31 meters larger than the average distance of the paintball shot from a 40 degree angle. An inference made as to why the results turned out the way they did was because, once the paintballs had been shot from 35 degrees the angle continued to increase, which caused the paintball to be shot …show more content…
One of these factors was the paintball gun functioned properly. Another factor that went well was the point were the paintball hit the ground was able to be seen, which caused the results to be recorded accurately. One factor that did not go well during the experiment was the distance the paintballs traveled at 85 and 90 degrees was not able to be recorded because the paintballs traveled too high which caused them to go in many different directions. This lead to the point were the paintballs hit the ground to be undetermined. One idea that I thought of during the experiment was if the color of type of paintball affected the distance the paintball would travel. Another thought was if the type compression used to launch the paintball from the gun affected the distance the paintball would travel. The two types of air or gas used to propel the paintball out of the paintball gun are CO2 and compressed air. A plan for future research on this experiment could be testing every angle from 0 to 90 degrees. This would show the perfect angle to shoot a paintball because data for all 90 angles would be collected so you would be able to see to best possible angle from the data