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    Undergrad Why does the unloaded cart accelerate faster when the other cart gains mass?

    Yes, that works too. I am of course familiar with the impulse-momentum equlivalency, just an oversight on my part to take it into consideration.
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    Undergrad Why does the unloaded cart accelerate faster when the other cart gains mass?

    Thanks! That makes sense. I appreciate the help. Peter
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    Undergrad Why does the unloaded cart accelerate faster when the other cart gains mass?

    Hello! I am a high school teacher and I am doing a lab on Newton's laws. I need help interpreting part of the lab because the results did not come out to what the laws would have predicted. The lab consisted of setting up two carts, one with a spring which can be compressed and one...