How Do You Calculate Inclined Plane Velocity?
We know about slopes from skiing downhill in the winter or bicycling down an incline. In physics, any slopes and wedges are called inclined planes. According to Newton’s law of motion, an unbalanced object kept on a frictionless inclined plane slides down the slope. The “frictionless” plane means that the plane applies no forces to the object moving down it. Read the following steps below to learn how to calculate the velocity of an object on the inclined plane. Obtain measurement of the vertical height (h) of the inclined plane. Measure the distance from the bottom of the inclined plane to the top where your object starts moving. Make sure all your measurements are in the same standard unit. Know that 1 inch = 0.0254 meters. Apply the principle of conservation of mechanical energy to find velocity. At the bottom of the incline plane, gravitational potential energy of the object, m*g*h, is converted into kinetic energy, 1/2*m*v^2. Write it down as: m*g*h = 1/2*m*v^2 Arrange the equatio
