Question

I did a lab on Newton’s second law. The procedure went something like this

Procedure:

1.) Tare the force sensor attached to the cart.

2.) Attach 100 g to the string and attach the other end to the force sensor atop the cart.

3.) Allowing the weight to hang freely, from the end of the string that is attached to the force sensor, start recording data while holding the cart in place to capture T₀

4.)Release the cart, this allows the tension force that is in the string to be transferred to the cart creating an acceleration a₀.

5.) Use the software to determine:

a.) The acceleration a₀

b.) The tension T₀

c.) The tension T_ex

I then plotted T₀ Vs Hanging Mass and I found the slope to be .0098. I know that this is what the mass, in grams, must be multiplied by to give its weight in Newton’s. What else does this slope say? What would this slope be expected to be?

Answer 1

According to your experiment,

which tells about the initial acceleration of the cart.

As always your initial acceleration is due to gravity of earth only, therefore using mass in kg slope is expected to be 9.8

Hope this wil help you.

Thankyou