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Recommended: Imication of Newtons First law of motion

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Newton’s first law of motion states that an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force and an object going a constant speed in a straight line will stay in motion at the constant speed unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.This law helps explain how the balloon racer was at rest relative to the starting line as my partner held the straw. Once the unbalanced force (the air from the balloon), was released as my partner removed his hand from the straw, the racer started to change distance from the starting line because it had been put in motion. The second part of the law is shown when the balloon racer was released and started to travel forward. According to Newton’s law, if no unbalanced forces acted upon the racer, it would go on forever at a constant speed. In trial 1, the racer should have gone on forever at a speed of 1.34 m/s, but because unbalanced forces like rolling friction and air resistance acted upon it, the racer eventually stopped moving. Rolling friction is the force that when in this case, resists the motion of the balloon racer by having the wheels and balloon drag. Air …show more content…

This law ties in with the balloon racer lab because this equation was used when trying to calculate the force and acceleration of the racer. After doing the calculations, we found that our fastest trial was in trial 3 when the racer went 0.82 m/s2 and our slowest trial was in trial 2 when the racer went 0.58 m/s2. Mass and force affected both of these results because in trial 2, we had lots of tape on the racer and condensation inside the balloon which raised the mass of the racer and caused our acceleration to be lower. After taking lots of tape off before trial 3, we noticed a huge jump in acceleration from trial 2 because now that the mass of the racer was lower. Therefore, the racer traveled at a higher acceleration in the trials after lowering the

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