Pull the rope to bigger or smaller
Exercise and reference answers
- Categories
- Acceleration rises
- Acceleration falls
- Questions
- Answer
- Acceleration rises
- Question
- The net external force is doubled.
- Answer
- Acceleration falls
- Question
- The mass is doubled.
- Answer
- Acceleration falls
- Question
- The net external force is halved.
- Answer
- Acceleration rises
- Question
- The mass is halved.
- Answer
- Acceleration falls
- Question
- A heavier object, same push.
- Answer
- Acceleration rises
- Question
- A harder push, same object.
- Instructions
- Tap the side of the rope showing what happens to the acceleration.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 'Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion', sections 4.1-4.8_
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