See the tables and graph below for more information on the times of the shock absorbers. My hypothesis was that the time for the shock absorber to compress with the single and multiple holes drilled into the damper would be very close when the total area of the single and multiple holes are the same. The results indicate that this hypothesis should be accepted because the amount of time it took the shock absorber to compress was close comparing the time of the single and multiple hole drilled in the disk with the area kept constant. Because of the results of this experiment, I wonder if the material used in the damper would have different times to compress because of the texture of the material. If I were to conduct this project again I would use a drill press to drill out the holes to ensure that the size of the hole would be more accurate.
Shock absorbers can be very simple or very complex pieces of machinery.
They range from shock absorbers in radio controlled cars to NASA s shock absorbers in their spacecraft. The most common place shock absorbers can be found in an automobile s suspension system. Viscosity is the level of thickness or thinness on a liquid. The lower level of viscosity the faster the liquid will move. Damping controls the amount of fluid or gas that goes through the damper and into the other side of the shock absorber.