When we began this project we were given a problem. Could rats chew through a man’s bandages that were restraining him from moving, in time before a swinging blade lowered far enough to kill him. We were supposed use the little information given to determine what the rate of lowering was for the blade, and how it swung. That could then tell us how much time we had, that then combined with information on how fast the rats could chew would tell us if he could move in time. How ever to obtain how fast the pendulum was swinging we needed to know how pendulums work, what effect each swing. We already know that the rats only began chewing when the blade is fairly close to hitting him. The problem also told us that the pendulums rate of speed is increasing the long the rope lowers it and that the blade is made of metal. We then learned about frequency bar graph's stander deviation and multiple other forms of data analysis so that we could determine the rate of pendulum swinging. Here was the first bit of brainstorming we did.
Now after a bunch of learning and testing some data analysis that we did.