ANALYSIS

According to Sir Isaac Newton’s second law of motion, it states that a ‘net force’ is
required for a body to have acceleration. With that in mind, applying this concept in real
world physics, on our experiment, the objects; dynamics cart and weight hanger are the
primary apparatuses that needs examining, because by careful observation we notice
that the cart getting pulled is directly coming from the string attached to the weight hanger
having a mass of 0.005 (Kg) plus the additional weight produced by the set of weights
that resulted to the emergence of acceleration of the dynamics cart which originally had
no acceleration at all and was at rest, which obeys Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of motion
which states that an object will stay at rest, unless a force acts upon the object. These
results show the clarity of the ‘laws’ stated by Sir Isaac Newton, Inertia, and Acceleration.
The main equation that was used in the experiment can be seen below:
𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 = 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑥 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
Understanding the formula, we can notice the inverse proportionality of
‘acceleration’ to the ‘mass’ of an object, as the mass increases will be the decrease of
acceleration, and the ‘laws’ were unchangingly uniform throughout the experiment.
 CONCLUSION
After carefully doing the experiment, I have found out the objectives of this
experiment were met, as the results from the experiment were directly constant to the
laws we know in Modern Physics and was consistent throughout the whole experiment.
The experiment proved to follow the direct proportionality of acceleration to its net force
if the mass of the body is constant, plus the inverse proportionality of acceleration and
mass if the net force is constant, through proper and careful observation and analysis as
the experiment progressed.
However, even though we have followed proper procedure, there were still errors
that occurred during the experiment, like the problem we had when we have to press
down the button to send the dynamics cart into motion, because we cannot push the
button without applying a force downward, which in terms of physics, we were resisting
the initial acceleration of the cart which greatly affects the actual values that it must have
had, that is why we were required to compute for the percent error.