How Do You Find Acceleration On An Inclined Plane?
In our daily life we know that we go much faster down the slope when skiing downhill in the winter or bicycling down an incline. We accelerate. In physics, slides and wedges are called inclined planes. According to Newton’s Law of Motion, an unbalanced object kept on a frictionless inclined plane will accelerate (change the speed) down it. The “frictionless” plane means the plane exerts no forces to the object moving down it. You can calculate the acceleration of the object sliding down the inclined plane. Measure the length (d) and the vertical height (h) of the incline plane. Measure the distance from the bottom of the inclined plane to the top where your object starts moving. Make all your measurements in meters. Know that 1 inch = 0.0254 meters. Divide the height “h” by the length “d” to find sine of the angle (Q) of the inclined plane. Sin (Q) = h/d Use Newton’s Second Law–F (forces) = m (mass)*a (acceleration)–that states that the acceleration is directly proportional to the fo
