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Modified Atwood Lab — Cart + Hanging Mass

A cart on a horizontal track is pulled by a string over a pulley to a hanging mass. Vary the hanging mass or the cart mass and record the acceleration to test Newton's second law. g = 9.81 m/s2.

t = 0.000 s

x — cart position vs t

v — velocity vs t

Data table

Try: record a for several hanging masses, then plot a vs m·g. Press D to record.