The most recent robotics lab conducted in class focused around the laws created by one of human history’s greatest scientists: Isaac Newton. Using the lego robot’s computer system, a pulley, and various weights, we conducted an experiment regarding the law of gravity and Newton’s laws of motion.
The experiment centered around Newton’s second law: force= mass x acceleration.
The first set in the experiment was conducted with the force remaining as a constant in order to track the changes in acceleration when different masses were applied.
The second set of data was the opposite: We kept the mass stable and changed the force applied in order to again track the acceleration.
If applied correctly the data should go as follows:
When force is constant and mass is increased, acceleration decreases. When mass decreases, acceleration increases.
When mass in constant, force and acceleration increase and decrease together according to how much force is applied.
Our data is as follows: