Carissa T.

Topic: Softball

Essential Question: What is most essential to winning a softball game?















Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Self Reflection

1) So far I think I am Proficient in senior project because I am accomplishing tasks lid in front of me.
2) I think that I have done my research relatively well, because I have learned a lot and found a lot of useful information to use.
3) I need to work on service learning because I need to find a new place of interest that can help me further with my project.

Science Fair Proposal

1. If a softball player hits the "sweet spot" of a bat, then they may be able to hit the ball further on average.

2.  Dependent variable: sweet spot location
     Independent variable: force by the bat
     Control: bat used

3. My EQ is about finding what is most essential to winning a softball game. I believe hitting is one of those essentials and in order to get the best hit you must have the best performance out of your bat, and in order to have the best performance you must hit the sweet spot which has the least vibration for a smooth energy transmission from the bat to the ball.

4. In order to perform my experiment I will need to build a structure to hold the bat upside down and then tap the bat in different locations and measure the vibration frequency with the vernier accelerometer and record the data.

5.  Mine would be under the physics category.