Proving Newton's Second Law

Question: How does mass and acceleration relate to force

 



Materials used:

• wood track
• spring scale
• weights
• car

Hypothesis: The larger the mass on the car the more force it takes to move it

Steps:
1) Get supplies, stop watch, weights, spring scale, car, and wood track
2) Go over to the station you will be preforming experiment in
3) Put the wood track flat then put a weight in the car, then pull the car with a spring scale to record its force
4)Preform experiment when track and everything is set up
5) After that raise the wood track, angling track at desired angle
6)Record data throughout experiment
7)get graph paper
8) on the X-axis put force (N) on Y-axis put acceleration
9) Plot data, use a line graph
10) Get another piece of graph paper
11) On X- axis put acceleration (m/s2) on the Y-axis put mass (G)
12)Using a line graph plot the data