Falling Time

GIVEN: Dynamics track and cart, string, hanging mass, balance, meterstick

TASK: Predict the time a given mass released from rest at a known height will take to reach the floor, when it is pulling a cart of known mass up a ramp of a given angle.

POSTER: Free-body diagram, net force equation, calculations of coefficient of kinetic friction and acceleration of system

DATA:

Falling distance: 1 m (floor to bottom of hanging mass)

Incline angle: 28^o