Assignment:
Question
1. Do your values for the acceleration from your graphs agree with each other? What factor could cause them to be different?
2. Equation 3 says that, for constant acceleration motion, a plot of distance traveled from rest versus the square of the time should produce a straight line passing through the origin. Did the straight line fit to your data in Part A pass through the origin? If not, why not and what does the intercept represent? (See question 1!)
3. What factors do you suppose determine the acceleration of the ball rolling down the U-shaped track in Part A?
4. Did you find that your data was well fit by a straight line in all parts? If so, what does this fact alone tell you? If not, what factors might be responsible for the deviations?
5. Other people have conducted similar measurements, just possibly with better equipment, and found that the acceleration due to gravity in Pomona is 9.80 m/s2. Do you suppose that the uncertainties in your measurements are large enough to account for any difference that you might have observed?
Attachment:- Constant Acceleration Motion.rar