Introduction:

The Second Law is concerned with relating acceleration to mass and net force.

Newton's second law of motion explains how an object will change velocity if it is pushed or pulled upon. Firstly, this law states that if you do place a force on an object, it will accelerate, i.e., change its velocity, and it will change its velocity in the direction of the force. Secondly, this acceleration is directly proportional to the force. For example, if you are pushing on an object, causing it to accelerate, and then you push, say, three times harder, the acceleration will be three times greater. Thirdly, this acceleration is inversely proportional to the mass of the object. For example, if you are pushing equally on two objects, and one of the objects has five times more mass than the other, it will accelerate at one fifth the acceleration of the other. Newton's second law talks about changes in momentum (m * V) so, at this point, we can't separate out how much the mass changed and how much the velocity changed. We only know how much product (m * V) changed. The objective of the experiment is to understand how motion depends on mass and force. You would also be able to investigate the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration as described by Newton s 2nd Law of Motion. Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object).