Newtons Second Law of Motion

Today we started off by continuing the lab we started yesterday. We had put the force sensor on the dynamics cart and now it was time to collect some data! Mr Banow went over how to do the lab making sure to highlight some key points in the lab. Then we were off and racing. Lab Quests were procured and each group started collecting the data.

First off you were to use a motion as shown in the video and then we analyzed the force vs time graph and the acceleration vs time graph. Which we saw were quite similar. We then made a Force vs acceleration graph. When then curve fitted a line in the graph and got the equation of the straight line.

We saw that the Y corresponds with Force, the X with acceleration, M or the slope as mass and B the y-intercept should be zero.
Then using the linear-regression equation we determined acceleration given force.

After the trial runs were complete we completed the analysis questions in the lab and determined that

F=ma

Newtons Second Law of Motion!

Brittany is up next.