Acceleration of a System

Lab Brief

Create the System in the Diagram Below

• Students may collaborate to set up,but each student must have their own unique masses and ticker tape of raw data.
• Determine and record all relevant data to determine the acceleration of the system from theory. Include uncertainty in mass.
• Calculate the acceleration of the system from the ticker tape timer.

What to Hand In

• Title Page
• A hypothesis that the system will accelerate at the value obtained by calculation.
• Observations and Calculations and Graph(s) to determine acceleration from the ticker tape timer data.
• Calculations to determine the acceleration of the system. The calculation must develop an equation for the acceleration of the system.
• Error and uncertainty calculations.
• A discussion indicating the magnitude of the error in % and explaining them in terms of random uncertainty and systematic error. Describe how you may reduce the random uncertainty in this experiment.
• Raw Data (ticker tape)