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Course: High school physics - NGSS?>?Unit 1
Lesson 1: Force, mass, and accelerationApply: force, mass, and acceleration
Problem
Three teams of students are designing an experiment to study the relationship between the mass of an object and its acceleration due to a force. All three teams are using the variation of an atwood machine shown below.
Team 1 varies the mass of and measures the time takes to reach the floor for each mass.
Team 2 adds low-friction wheels to . Then, they vary the mass of and measure the time that takes to reach the floor for each mass.
Team 3 adds low-friction wheels to . Then, they measure the time it takes to reach the floor.
Which team’s procedure would best determine how force affects a mass’s acceleration?