Terminal velocity

At (a), the surface is not inclined. When a vehicle moves around a bend or a corner on a flat road, it is moving in circular path. Therefore, it will experience centripetal acceleration and there must be an external force causing centripetal acceleration. As shown in the diagram, the only thing in contact with the car is the road, which is between the tyres of the vehicle and the surface of the road. Therefore, we can know that the frictional force exerted between the tyres and the road directed…

INTRODUCTION Can the magnitude of gravity be found by measuring the period in relation to the length of the string of an oscillating pendulum? The aim with this lab was for us to gain a greater understanding in the area of oscillations and simple harmonic motion. Also to determine if the use of a pendulum is a good strategy for measuring the gravity. I found this experiment to be very interesting since I’ve seen and used pendulums a lot before, but I have never really reflected on why they…

concerned about his maximum height, horizontal and vertical displacement and the speed required to perform a perfect jump with a double axel. A figure skater’s trajectory can be determined by the initial takeoff angle of the ice skate’s blade, initial velocity, and the initial height of the takeoff. The peak of the figure skater’s vertical displacement is also known as the figure skater’s maximum value due…

A ball, and a feather dropped at the same height will hit the ground at the same time when placed in a vacuum space. This is because acceleration of motion is the same for both object, and in this experiment, we are going to calculate accelerated motion using inclined planes. In this experiment, we will see whether “distance traveled is directly proportional to the square of the time”, and “if speed of a falling object depend only on the height from which it falls”. This experiment will give us…

All moving massive objects possess this property of momentum, a quantity proportional to the mass of the object times its velocity. Momentum is what allows objects to exert forces; it is the mechanism whereby two objects in a collision can influence one another. When two objects collide, they both enter the collision with some momentum – both have some mass and some velocity – both leave with some momentum; however, the total momentum of the system before impact cannot exceed the total momentum…

Introduction In this lab, we are measuring the ranges R of the ball as the function of the heights, H, that the ball is dropped from. I will use these data to determined the relationship between the height and the range. Procedure We divided this experiment into three parts. In the part one, the object was to observe the scatter in data. To do this, we set up the equipment: the bounce plate is 20 cm above the table ,the drop plate 20 cm above the bounce plate, a piece of carbon paper…

Renatta Oyles car driving down 84th street like she is has a velocity of a leftward direction and a leftward direction for acceleration. Velocity is defined as the speed of an object that is going in a certain direction. In this case her velocity is in a leftward direction because she is starting on the right and her car is moving to the left. She is starting on the right because in the diagram is shows that she was stopped on the right and those are the first dots in the diagram because she…

In this experiment the main goal is to examine the correlation between position, velocity, time, and acceleration of objects, moving in one or two dimensions. Each and every experiment will be conducted under different conditions. For example, the first experiment requires a constant force (gravity) to act on the object, the picket fence. This experiments other condition is that we neglect friction. This object should be in nearly ideally circumstances. In the second experiment, the conditions…

to find the x and y position equations are as follows: position-x= mx+b and position-y= g/2(x^2)+vel(x)+in. M equals the slope of an equation which can be found by taking the derivative of the x equation, which we have done, and vel represents the velocity of the equation. g/2 represents the acceleration affecting the equation, which is gravity, and in represents the distance from the vertex to the origin. Notice that gravity had to be converted in order to keep all units consistent throughout…

Diagram 1.6: Diagram showing tension force in the string (from 0 cm increasing in 1 cm until a displacement of 15 cm has been attained) This diagram shows the manner in which the tension force applied to the string was calculated. Starting at 0 centimeters, forces were provided in the string such that the string would extend one additional centimeter from the previous measurement. Using the Capstone® software, the force applied to the string was calculated at the given horizontal…