Physics AP - Bowling Ball Lab (#5) Background: After going up three stories high you reach terminal velocity. This is why we dropped the bowling ball from three stories. Problem: Find out what the height of the building and the find your error percentage. Procedure: Drop a bowling ball out of the third story window. Have two people time the drop. Do this four times. Then take the average of the times. From that calculate height of the building. Data: Ball # time Time average Percentage error 1 1.42s1.39s Bowling ball1.42s Bowling ball25.2% 2 1.62s1.57s Video camera1.63s Video camera.76% 3 1.42s1.45s Real Distance13.2m 4 1.44s1.63s Conclusion/Analysis: The height of the building according to the bowling ball is 9.88m and the height of the building is 13.1m. The percentage is 25.3% according to bowling ball, and according to the video camera is .76%. The timers where not accurate or the dropper weren't accurate.