With a combination of that site and peer help we were able to figure out what to do. I think we may have a little better understanding on dynamics. Thank you.
Homework Statement
Useing atwood machine, determine acceleration, knowing weight of mass to be pulled and mass pulling, distance mass travels, and information provided by photogate[which we don't understand what exactly this information is]
Homework Equations
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The Attempt at a...
If your looking for the x displacement. It turns out the same either way.
But yes, it is less than 1.5m/s. It's around .6, if I remember correctly. I plugged in gravity for the acceleration the second time but it's zero because their is no horizontal acceleration.
Thank you very much for...
Thank you.
x would really be the y displacement, which is .86m, correct?
So time is .419 seconds... and would you plug that into the displacement & time equation?
Which would give you 1.504 m/s as the initial velocity.
Thank you for your help.
Question and Data
What is the initial velocity of an object that rolls off a table and hits the floor below?
Lab produced the following data:
Table height: 86 cm
Distance of object from table when it hits floor: 23 cm
Relevant equations
Instantaneous Speed: Vf = Vo + at
[I think this is the...