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Dynamics Cart with Force and Motion Sensors
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Use a motion sensor with a force sensor mounted on a dynamics cart pulled by a constant tension string to illustrate Newton's second law. The mass of the cart and the string tension can be varied.


Knight 2nd Chapter:   4.6
HRW 9th:   5.06
RHK 5th:   3.4
PIRA DCS classification:   1G10.232

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University