Al-Nahrain univesity

Bashar Ahmed
Forces
 Forces
Purpose : -

1- To verify the law of the parallelogram of force .

2- To measure the specific gravity of a solid M , using the Parallelogram Law

Apparatus :
Known masses . Mic 100 g) , Mac 150 g) ,
Unknown mass , Ms C ? g) two
, Pulleys strings
,
, ruler and Protractor

Method : -

1- connect the known masses Mi, Me and the unknown mass , Ms by two strings running over Pulleys as indicated

in figure 1 .

2- Attach a sheet of paper to the board .

The strings will take up a position for which the forces acting at 0

are in equilibrium .

3- Make small Pencil crosses on the paper as far as possible to mark the Positions of the strings A .
accurate

method of doing this is to mark the Positions of the shadows of the strings formed by the distant Lamp

4- Remove the paper from the board with , a ruler ; join the crosses by Pencil liner then extend the lines until they

meet at 0 .

let 25N -1cm , so that an arrow 150 cm Long would represent the force of 6 N from the

Point 0 along OP and OQ draw arrows to represent the forces

Using these two forces arrows as sides complete the Parratt elogram ◦ PCQ figure 2
Draw the resultant arrow ◦ c. measure its length and remembering that 100N represent 4cm - find

what force it represents .

5- Repet the experiment with Ms immersed completely in water find its weight in water

gravity of solid Ms
6- cat cut at the specific .

5. 6 =
W air /( W air - W water)
Discussion
1- what is the relation do you find between the weights of the floating body and the
weight of water thatis displaced ?
weight of water displaced is equal to the weight of the body According.
to

Archimedes
2- what is the Resultant force ?

Physics resultant force acting object after all individual forces

in , a an
acting
on the object are combi end .
the resultant force is the single force that would have

the same effect on the object

3- what is the archimedes principle ?
the archimedes Principle states that an object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up

by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object

4- define the specific Gravity of a material }
the specific gravity of a mati real is the ratio of the density of the ma tired

to the density of reference substance typically water .

specific gravity is
unit less quantity