In this blog we are supposed to measure craters from the same ball in flour form different heights. We measured a 7.7kg ball from 12" (.3048 meters), 8" (.2032 meters), and 5" (.127 meters). All the craters were one inch in diameter. The average 12" crater was 8/16th of an inch deep. The average 8" crater was 4/16th of an inch deep. The average 5" crater was 3/16th of an inch deep.
Twelve inches: GPE= 23 J. V= 2.444 m/s
Eight inches: GPE= 15.333 J. V= 1.995 m/s
Five inches: GPE= 9.5835 J. V= 1.577 m/s
I realized that the higher velocity it has when it hits the flower the larger the crater will be. You get a higher velocity by dropping it from higher up or dropping a more massive crater. The higher Gravitation Potential Energy an object has the larger the crater (again this is connected to how high up you drop it from and how massive the object is).
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