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What is an experiment that shows Force = Mass * Acceleration?

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What is an experiment that shows Force = Mass * Acceleration?

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You’ve certainly confused me! When I was at school, we used trolleys pulled by weights that hung on a light string over a pulley at the end of the bench. The hanging weight is the unbalanced force. You need to measure the mass of the trolley, and you can vary that by adding masses on top. The mass accelerated is the trolley (and any masses on it) and the hanging mass as well – don’t forget that. You can measure the acceleration in a modern classroom using a card on the trolley, a couple of light gates and an electronic timer – you lucky young people: we used to have to mess around with vibrators making dots on ticker-tape pulled by the trolley.

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