00:01
All right, so for this lab, you'll have to set it up and run it yourself, but the theoretical acceleration we can find here.
00:12
Now, if these masses are the same, so m1 equals m2, then the forces acting on them should be the same as well.
00:22
So for two equal masses, their acceleration should be if you start them moving, they'll continue at more or less constant speed, or if you start them at rest, they should remain at rest within a margin of error.
00:40
Now, if m1 is twice m2, we can calculate the expected acceleration, or the theoretical acceleration, but looking at the sum of the forces, the net force.
00:52
The net force on this system is going to be the mass times acceleration of the system.
01:01
So m1 plus m2 times the acceleration.
01:05
And the net force is the sum of the forces, and there are two forces acting on this system.
01:12
So there's the weight force of m1 and the weight force of m2.
01:16
Now i drew my system to include the string.
01:21
So the tension forces in the string are included and irrelevant to the net force because they're included in the difference between these two weight forces.
01:35
So if we looked at the masses individually, the net force on this would be m1g down and tension force up...