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Your goal in this experiment is to determine the acceleration of a cart as it rolls down a tilted track.
Last time, you measured the time it took a cart to roll certain distances down a tilted track. Today, you must analyze those measurements to figure out the average acceleration of the cart.
You should have a table of measurements that looks something like this:
2 2
Distance (cm) Time to roll (s) avg time (s) (avg time) (s)
1 2 3 +/- +/-
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20
30
40
50
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Use your measurements to make a graph which corresponds to the following equation:
What is the acceleration of the cart? Be sure to include both a value and an uncertainty.
If you have time: Is there any way to compute this acceleration, theoretically? If so, how does the theoretical acceleration compare to your measured value?
Copyright © Michael Richmond.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.