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Newton's Laws: Car Acceleration Lab Report

Sir Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion: the law of inertia, the relationship between force, mass and acceleration, and action/reaction pairs. The student conducted an experiment testing how acceleration is affected by changes in force and mass. The results showed that acceleration increased with increasing force, supporting the hypothesis. Acceleration decreased with increasing mass, also supporting the hypothesis.

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Newton's Laws: Car Acceleration Lab Report

Sir Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion: the law of inertia, the relationship between force, mass and acceleration, and action/reaction pairs. The student conducted an experiment testing how acceleration is affected by changes in force and mass. The results showed that acceleration increased with increasing force, supporting the hypothesis. Acceleration decreased with increasing mass, also supporting the hypothesis.

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Joshua Bozann 1/9/12 2nd Hour Science Lab Report Pre Lab:

Sir Isaac Newton developed three important laws of motion. His first law of motion is the law of inertia. His second law of motion relates force, mass, and acceleration. His third law of motion is Action/Reaction pairs.

Planning (A):
Problem One: Does the acceleration of the car increase when
the amount of force is increased?

Problem Two: Does the acceleration of the car increase or


decrease when the cars mass increases?

Variables Problem One


MV-The amount of force RV- The acceleration CV-Same car, same distance, same string, same spring scale, same people, same jobs, same surface, same air resistance, same amount of mass

Problem Two
MV- The amount of mass RV- The acceleration CV- Same car, same distance, same string, same spring scale, same people, same jobs, same surface, same air resistance, same amount of force

Planning (B)

See Lab book.

Data Collection
Part I
Force (N) Trial I (Sec) Trial II (Sec) Trial III (Sec) Avg. (Sec) Accelerati on (m/s2) 10N 20N 30N 40N

Did 75 39 26

Not 59 42 37

Cross 55 37 38

Finish 63

Line .0935

39.333 .14 33.666 18.779 7

Part II
Mass (G) Trial I (Sec) Trial II (Sec) Trial III (Sec) Avg. (Sec) Accelerati

on (m/s2) .26333 .0938 .5333 .77 .0638 .028 .76667 .0484

0 100 200 500

.27 .55 .8 .83

.21 .45 .78 .71

.31 .6 .72 .77

Data Analysis

Calculations Part I 20N: A=FM A=20kgm/s2213g .0935 m/s2 30N: A=FM A=30kgm/s2213g .14 m/s2 40N: A=FM A=40kgm/s2213g .18779 m/s2 Part II 0g: A=FM A=20kgm/s2213g .0938 m/s2 100g: A=FM A=20kgm/s2313g .0638 m/s2 200g: A=FM A=20kgm/s2414g .0484 m/s2 500g: A=FM A=20kgm/s2714 .028 m/s2

Conclusions
Part I
My Hypothesis stated that if the amount of force applied to the car increased, the acceleration will too and based in 20N made if travel 50cm in 63 seconds on average while at 40N it traveled the same distance in 33 seconds on average, it was correct.

Part II
My hypothesis stated that if the amount of mass increases the acceleration will decrease and this was proven true by the fact that with no extra weight, the car traveled the 50cm in 26 seconds, but with 500g extra, it took 79 seconds.

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