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Atwood's Machine: Exploring Motion

This experiment uses an Atwood's machine, a device with two masses connected by a pulley, to investigate Newton's second law of motion and measure acceleration. The objective is to determine the force, mass, and acceleration by varying the masses and using the formula that calculates acceleration based on the difference between the two masses divided by their sum.

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Atwood's Machine: Exploring Motion

This experiment uses an Atwood's machine, a device with two masses connected by a pulley, to investigate Newton's second law of motion and measure acceleration. The objective is to determine the force, mass, and acceleration by varying the masses and using the formula that calculates acceleration based on the difference between the two masses divided by their sum.

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Introduction

This experiment is purposed to


investigate the Newtons second law
of motion using the system called
Atwoods Machine, a device used to
demonstrate
the
principles
of
acceleration. Using this machine, it is
possible to measure the acceleration
accurately.
Our
objective
is
to
determine the force, mass and
acceleration.

THEORY
The
Atwoods
machine
is
consists of two masses (m1 and m2)
over a pulley. If the two masses are
equal in mass then there is no motion

in the machine. If the two masses


have different mass then acceleration
can
be
measured
accurately
depending on the mass of the two.
Atwoods machine is very useful
device to determine the acceleration
of both masses. The formula of the
acceleration of two masses is:

a=g

m1m2
m1 +m 2

(1)

Where: a = acceleration
g = acceleration due to gravity

m1 and

m2 = mass

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