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Homework Statement
My investigation report concerns Newton's second law and testing it to conclude that the Force is directly proportional to the acceleration.
We measured a cart down a runway with mass increments of 10g per result.
Starting off with 100g attached to the cart via thread (+ pulley), recording that data and then taking off 10g (from the thread) and adding that mass to the cart and recording the result.
After we had recorded all the data (which would eventually end up having 100g on the cart/trolley) we need to then plot a graph.
I am confused with the plotting of the graph because everywhere I look has Force on the y-axis, whereas I need "Newtons" (displayed on my graph as 10^-2N (why?) in the x-axis and acceleration on the y-axis.
Homework Equations
a = 1/m (equals F?)