41 newton's second law diagram
There is a variation of this experiment, in which the force is held constant but the mass of the trolley is altered by attaching further masses. This may be conducted to provide data for the complementary relationship indicated by Newton's second law: for a given applied force, the acceleration of the trolley is inversely proportional to its mass. 28 Experiment 5: Newton’s Second Law FREE-BODY DIAGRAM SOLUTION METHOD: INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Sketch the problem/situation and specify the coordinate system for each object in your system. Step2: Draw all forces (arrows that represent these vectors) acting on each object in the system you are investigating. Newton's second law states that the net force, or the vector sum of all the forces acting on an object, equals the mass times the acceleration. So, it is possible to have forces act on an object without acceleration if the forces are oriented such that they vector sum to zero. An example would be a person sitting in a chai...