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mikkeljuhl
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I have been using the formula a = g sin(theta) to process my data I am however pretty sure something is wrong. I doubt it is my data that is wrong, even though when I look at them they look weird in the sense that I would think that after one second the acceleration should have been doubled, whereas it hasn't. The data was measured using Vernier's Go Motion sensor. It set up a ramp (2m long) and then let a ball roll and got the following data:
http://ibros.dk/physics.png
Shouldn't the equation: a / sin(2.8) give me, when it is at one second, 9.8 m/s?
At one second acceleration was(taking average at five trials) 0.3454 m/s^2 / sin(2.8) = 7.07065768m/s^2
And one of the closest (I didn't take average here, just looked for the highest number within my data) was at 1.70 s, which is: 0.466/ sin(2.8 degrees) = 9.540 m/s^2
Can you see what I have done wrong?
http://ibros.dk/physics.png
Shouldn't the equation: a / sin(2.8) give me, when it is at one second, 9.8 m/s?
At one second acceleration was(taking average at five trials) 0.3454 m/s^2 / sin(2.8) = 7.07065768m/s^2
And one of the closest (I didn't take average here, just looked for the highest number within my data) was at 1.70 s, which is: 0.466/ sin(2.8 degrees) = 9.540 m/s^2
Can you see what I have done wrong?
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