You run several trials in which different steady horizontal forces are applied to the…

PHYSICS · Subjective · A Level · Physics · Mechanics and materials · Mechanics and materials

Problem

You run several trials in which different steady horizontal forces are applied to the same low-friction cart, and you record the resulting accelerations. Describe what graph you would plot to determine the cart’s mass directly from the data and explain how the mass is obtained from that graph.

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