Unit 6: Forces with motion

So yesterday in Physics we did the Air Track lab. I didn't do a blog yesterday because Jon had told us it wasn't necessary, so instead today I'm going to be posting two blog posts. So the air track lab was supposed to demonstrate the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. In others words, it was testing Newton's 2^nd law, or F=Ma. We tested if force was increased how acceleration would change. We found out that force and acceleration were directly related. We also tested to see what the change would be if we increased the mass. We found out that acceleration and mass are inversely related. We ended up collecting all the data as a class because it took too long to collect data individually in our own groups.  


I chose this picture because it shows that the Normal forces and the weight forces cancel out but using the F=MA equation we could calculate force and mass and acceleration.The cart is accelerating forward.