Recent content by physics007

How would I account for rotation?

The car was made of plastic, with the wheels being small and with low mass, so I can probably ignore this. However, just for future reference, a couple questions:- 1) How would I even mass the wheels of the car (assuming I'm not able to take them off) 2) How would the mass of the car factor into...

What do you mean? As far as I know the only essential variables are initial velocity, final velocity, acceleration and displacement. A little more information on the setup. I measured the length of the ramp, this value is my displacement. Placed a photogate at beginning of ramp, length of car...

Homework Statement We recently conducted a physics lab in class where we designed an experiment to "prove" the kinematic equations. We used photogates, ramp and a car. Homework Equations We have to show v = u+at and the other kinematic equations are true with our collected data. The Attempt...