Lab report 2 Acceleration and Circular Motion

Question

You have been appointed to a citizen committee investigating the safety of a proposed new ride called "The Spinner" at the Mall of America. The ride consists of seats mounted on each end of a steel beam. For most of the ride, the beam rotates about its center in a horizontal circle at a constant speed. Several committee members insist that a person moving in a circle at constant speed is not accelerating, so there is no need to be concerned about the ride's safety. You disagree and sketch a diagram showing that each component of the velocity of a person on the ride changes as a function of time even though the speed is constant. Then you calculate the magnitude of a person's acceleration. The committee is still skeptical, so you build a model to show that your calculations are correct.

You have the rotational platform shown above. You will also have an iPod and access toVernier Video Analysis. Place a temporary piece of tape on the platform with a high contrast mark on it for data collection.

Hint; Prediction: show starting from R(vector), speed and acc. magnitude are constant

plot: x vs t, y vs t, v_x vs t, v_y vs t, speed vs t

a_x vs t, a_y vs t, acc magnitude vs t

Error bar source of error

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format of lab report 2

1) Abstract

2) introduction

3) prediction

4) procedure

5) Analysis

6) conclusion