Awesome! It isn't necessary to explain my whole procedure, but yea, I just needed to find the velocity on that part of the ramp.
Honestly, thank you a lot! I wasn't completely sure how to solve it and you helped me use logic to find the solution.
Yes, I have studied those concepts.
So.. if the final velocity is constant when the vertical height of the ramp is also constant, it simply depends on the gravitational potential?
Then, by law of conservation of energy, the potential energy of the ball turns into kinetic energy. So I can...
Should the velocity be the same each time? I can't do further testing as this was lab work. Keeping the vertical height fixed means I would have to change the length of the ramp for each test angle, and that is too many independent variables.
Yes, exactly. I don't how to determine how the y-component of the acceleration adds into the final horizontal velocity. The ball is smooth steel against a plastic ramp. Friction is small so the vertical motion definitely doesn't just disappear.
In some way, the vertical motion turns into...
Homework Statement
Greetings, I'm new here :).
Straight to my problem. I have a ramp. A ball accelerates down at varying angles, and then it reaches the flat part and travels only in the x-direction. I need to find the velocity of the ball as it moves on this flat part, as it is no longer...