Essay about Newton: Force and Title Acceleration

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Title Acceleration versus Mass
Purpose
The purpose of this experiment is to observe the acceleration of an object caused by the Earth's gravity and to study the relationship between the mass of a body and the acceleration produced by constant force acting on that body.
Introduction:
Newton's second law states "The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, in the same direction as the net force, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object...” Unlike Newton's first law, the second law deals with objects and forces that are not balanced. The law simply states that the acceleration of an object depends on the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object.
This means that a is proportional to F, and 1/m.
Basically, Newton's second law of motion can be summarized as:
F=ma Or, Force is equal to Mass x Acceleration.
Apparatus:
Ticker timer and power supply, Sellotape, dynamic trolley, pulley with table clamp, string, and a 10N capacity set of masses, (50g hanger, 50g, 2x100g, 500g, 1kg).
Procedure:
A mass carrier was suspended to a long piece of string, over the edge of a table, and then passed through a pulley on the corner of the table and attached at the other end of the string to a trolley. The trolley was attached to a length of ticker-timer tape, which passed through a ticker-timer, connected to an AC power supply. The ticker-timer tape, trolley and string were all lined