Motion Under Constant Acceleration

Questions: (to be answered experimentally)

• What does the position-time plot qualitatively look like under conditions of constant acceleration?

• What does constant acceleration mean in terms of forces and velocities?

• What is the relation between distance and time in quantitative terms?

• Why is friction analagous to gravitational free fall in terms of the position-time plot?

• What does the velocity versus time plot look like under conditions of constant acceleration?

WHAT DOES THE POSITION VS TIME PLOT LOOK LIKE?

Now Let's take some data:

What is the relation between distance, time and acceleration, that we can deduce from the data we just generated in class?