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Procedure
b Pull a trolley with a fixed force along a bench. Loop one end of the
elastic cord around a rod attached to the trolley. Keep the force
constant by making sure that the cord is always stretched by the same
amount as the trolley moves.
c Choose and cut through a dot near to the start of the tape. Do this
when the trolley is travelling quite slowly but the dots are far enough apart
to clearly distinguish one from another.
d Count ten dot-to-dot spaces and cut the tape, through a dot, again.
You have cut a 'ten-tick-tape'.
e Count 40 more dot-to-dot spaces along the tape. Then cut the next
10 dot-to-dot spaces to make another ten-tick-tape.
i Use your velocity axis to help you to work out the initial velocity and
the final velocity. You can call these u and v. (Remember that u comes
before v in the alphabet, just as the first velocity comes before the
second.)
Work out the average acceleration of your trolley during the time
between the two tapes. Acceleration is 'rate of change of velocity'.
j Draw a straight line between the centres of the tops of the tapes.
Draw a horizontal line from the centre of the top of the first tape. Draw
a vertical line through the top of the second tape. You have made a right-
angled triangle. The length of the base of your triangle, using the units of
the horizontal axis, is 1 second.
Result :
Find :
a) Initial velocity
b) Final velocity
c) Time interval
d) Total displacement
e) Acceleration