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Fall 2009-Day 14
Force and Motion Activities
The students tried to model the idea that mass does not affect the rate at which objects fall by using motion detectors. Students had a slanted track with a cart on it. They put the motion detector at the bottom of the track. Students pushed the cart up and let gravity pull it back down towards the motion detector. A graph showed up on the computer screen. The students repeated this with a different cart that had extra weight on it…