Learning Exercise
Determining g on an Incline
Students will use experimental techniques to determine the value of g, the acceleration due to gravity, on Earth.
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- Virtual Labs
- Date last modified:
- May 21, 2020
- Created by:
- Helen Melino
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Exercise
Laboratory Excercise
Disciplines
Topics
Friction, Acceleration, Acceleration Due to Gravity, Net Force, Gravitational Potential Energy.
Type of Task
Learning Objectives
Students will understand how to calculate the acceleration due to gravity from the net force and mass of a cart.
Students will understand that vectors can be split into components.
Students will undertsand that the acceleration due to gravity is constant.
Students will understand how to calculate propagations of error in their measurements.
Assessment
Students will use an online simulation to complete a lab to determine the acceleration due to gravity, g, experimentally.