What Forces On Each Side Of Rope Are Equal?

For task one My hypothesis was "If the forces on each side of the rope are equal, then the sum of forces will be zero. If we can determine the force each person on both sides of the rope, then we can determine if the sum of their forces will equal zero. " which was, correct. I know my hypothesis was correct because of the balanced force. A balanced force is when you have an equal amount of force on each side of an object when force is being exerted on it, it doesn't move because there is no greater force pushing or pulling it. For example, during the simulation, there was an equal amount of force that was being exerted on both sides of the cart. Thus making no greater force making the balanced force equal. When the balanced force is equal there is no sum of forces because the forces are equal. Resulting in no winner and no motion. …show more content…
If we can determine the sums of the people before and after there moved, then we can determine if the sum of forces will change or not" Which was, correct. I know my hypothesis was correct because even though you may change positions of the dummies on the rope the force does not change. For example, I changed the positions of one of the dummies so it was closer to the cart. But when I pushed, “go,” both dummies still had the same amount of force (100N). Because the forces didn't change I know that the position of an object does not change the force it