Physics 5054 · O Level · Motion

Motion — practice question

A student is carrying out an investigation into the average speed of a trolley travelling along a horizontal bench. The trolley is let go from rest at the top of a ramp. The stopping distance is the distance travelled by the trolley from the foot of the ramp until it stops moving.
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Design an experiment to find how the average speed of the trolley along the bench until it comes to rest depends on its mass. The average speed is given by $\text{average speed} = \frac{\text{stopping distance}}{\text{time}}$. In your plan you should describe how to do the investigation, identify variables that should stay constant, draw a results table, and explain how to arrive at a conclusion.

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