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Okay, that gives me more consistent results. I had been solving for g by g=asin.

Nothing was applied to the cart directly, it was just set at the top and then released. Obviously there are factors of friction and air resistance, but this is the third week of a high school mechanics course and we're limiting everything to kinematics.

Sorry for being unspecific, I was looking more for a general answer. But we had a cart travel down a sloped track, had times recorded at A and B, along with a time taken to travel from A to B, all of which were known distances. This was used to calculate v1, v2, and a. Then we had taken two...

I need to experimentally find gravity using information from a lab we finished last week. Should I not be getting 9.8 m/s² at each angle or am I doing something wrong? And if I should indeed be getting ≈9.8 m/s² as my y-acceleration, can you point me in the right direction?