Today in physics we reviewed unbalanced forces. We started with this problem:
Using this information, we had to find the acceleration. First, we made a force diagram for both the weight and the cart. The force diagram for the cart looked like this:
and the force diagram for the weight looked like this:
To find the acceleration we used the formula acceleration=Funbalanced/mass. The unbalanced force is 1 N, and the mass is 0.6 kg, so the equation would look like: acceleration=1 N/0.6 kg. When you solve the equation, the acceleration is 1.67 m/s/s.
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