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MEASUREMENTOFACCELERATION

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MEASUREMENT OF ACCELERATION

Apparatus
Ticker timer and tape, suitable low-voltage a.c. power supply, dynamics trolley, runway
and laboratory jack or stand.

Ticker tape Ticker timer


Trolley Runway

Procedure
1. Set up the apparatus as in the diagram.
2. Connect the ticker timer to a suitable low-voltage power supply.
3. Allow the trolley to roll down the runway.
4. The trolley is accelerating as the distance between the spots is increasing.

.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. The time interval between two adjacent dots is 0.02 s, assuming the ticker timer
marks fifty dots per second.
6. Mark out five adjacent spaces near the beginning of the tape. Measure the length
s1 .
7. The time t1 is 5 0.02 = 0.1 s.
8. We can assume that the trolley was travelling at constant velocity for a small time
interval. Thus
distance s1
Initial velocity u.
time t1
9. Similarly mark out five adjacent spaces near the end of the tape and find the final
velocity v.
10. Measure the distance s in metres from the centre point of u to the centre point of v.
v2 u2
11. The acceleration is found using the formula a .
2s
12. By changing the tilt of the runway different values of acceleration are obtained.
Repeat a number of times.
13. Tabulate results as shown.

s1/m t1/s u/m s-1 s2/m t2/s v/m s-1 t/s a/m s-2

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Results

Notes
Ignore the initial five or six dots on the tape since the trolley may not be moving with
constant acceleration during this time interval.

Ticker timers that use precarbonated tape are recommended because the friction due to
paper drag is reduced.

Ensure that the voltage rating of the timer is not exceeded.

Some timers make one hundred dots in one second.

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