What is the horizontal acceleration of the plane?
Instead of fitting a linear equation to the horizontal data, I am going to fit a parabola. Doing this gives: This equation is similar to the form: Where the “a” term in this equation is the acceleration. This means the “a” from the fitting equation is 1/2 the acceleration. The horizontal acceleration of the plane is then 1.5 m/s2 or 0.15 g’s.
