Get Inclined Plane Experiment Lab Report

He deduced that an object which is uniformly accelerated will travel a greater distance in each successive time interval such that the distance traveled is directly proportional to the square of the time. He also discovered that the speed of a falling object depends only on the height from which it falls.

The inclined plane thus allowed Galileo to accurately measure acceleration with simple instruments and ultimately to prove that, in the absence of other forces such as air resistance, gravity causes all falling objects to accelerate toward Earth at the same rate.

Prop the ruler up on the books so that one end rests on the top of the books and the other on the ground. Ask your child to use two fingers to pinch the object and lift it to the the top of the stack of books. Ask your child to use two fingers to roll or slide the object up the inclined plane.

Objective: Today's experiment involves using a cart accelerating down an incline, that explores: Position and time for an object with constant acceleration and then uses that relationship to derive a mathematical relationship between the two.

Conclusion: This experiment showed that the acceleration of a cart moving down an inclined plane does not change.

Galileo's conclusion from this thought experiment was that no force is needed to keep an object moving with constant velocity. Newton took this as his first law of motion.

In a conclusion, the objective of the experiment was achieved since the forces acting on an inclined plane were identified and a correlation drawn between them by altering the angles of inclination.