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Yay, I think I got now, thanks! Why do you think the gravity value that I am getting is less than gravity? I would say the string, pulley, and air resistance play roles in affecting the acceleration due to gravity. You've been really helpful, and I promise this will be my last question on...

So basically plug in one of my datas for the m's and then solve for g? So my "a" is 21.4? If so, I am getting 447.91 for g :\?

I'm going to ask one more thing, it is asking to find acceleration due to gravity (g) from the slope of my graph and % error. I know how to use percent error but I don't know exactly how to find acceleration due to gravity. My equation for my line is as follows Y = 21.4x + 0.0139

M_total refers to the mass of m2 and m1

So it has an inverse relationship for the slope? So it's just 1/(m1+ m2)?

Well the y-int according to the line of best fit for the graph of Acceleration vs the mass of hanging is 0.0139. I believe we have this number because of experimental error? So the "x" is m1 + m2?

a = (m1g)/(m1+m2) Would a be the slope and m1 + m2 be the y intercept?

I did a lab earlier this week on Newton's second law with a pulley and carts. M2 was the block that traveled horizontally and M1 was the hanging mass. The mass of the cart that was moving horizontally was constant all experiment with about 0.2 kg. The mass of the hanging gradually increased...