The purpose of this experiment was to test Newton’s second law. To test his law we set mass on a pulley and used power (force) to pull the mass. We had to use the computer program to change the power and the mass to see what affects these changes would have on acceleration. First we kept the mass fixed at 0.23 grams and changed the force five times to see what pattern would occur. We were able to conclude that with a fixed mass and a decreasing force, acceleration also decreased . Next we kept the force fixed and we minimized the mass with each of the 5 trials. With this we concluded that with a constant force and a smaller mass acceleration increased.
