By: Kathryne Vetter

PurposeTo determine if a swim cap affects your time by

reducing drag in swimming and if it affects by a small amount or no time at all.

Hypothesis

That a swim cap will affect your time in swimming because it will reduce drag maybe not a lot but.

Experimental DesignIndependent Variable: Swim Cap or No Swim Cap

Dependent Variable: Time (seconds)Constants: Pressure in room, Type of Liquid,

Length Of Pool, Type of swim cap, Type of Timer.

Levels SWIM CAP

NO SWIM CAP

RepeatedTrials

5 5

Procedure1. Swimmer 1 will swim a 50 (2 laps) with wearing a swim cap2. Start the timer when Swimmer 1 jumps of starting block and

hits water3. End Timer when Swimmer 1 touches wall were they started4. Record Data In Notebook5. Give Swimmer 1 10 minutes to recoup6. Now Ask Swimmer 1 to swim another 50without wearing a

swim cap7. Start Timer when swimmer hits water8. End timer when swimmer 1 touches wall they started at9. Record Data10. Repeat steps 1-9 with different swimmers

DiagramTim

e45 sec

Stopwatch

Swim Cap

Swimmer

Pool

Data Table

1 Swimmer

Swim NoCap Cap

2 Swimmer

Swim NoCap Cap

3 Swimmer

Swim NoCap Cap

4 Swimmer

Swim NoCap Cap

5 Swimmer

Swim NoCap Cap

55 53(secs) (secs)

42 47(secs) (secs)

51 52(secs) (secs)

49 53(secs) (secs)

65 66(secs) (secs)

Swimmers

Time (seconds)

Graph

Conclusion

Conclusion

Conclusion