Mission F2D5: Inclined Plane Concepts

Mission F2D5 includes questions that pertain to conceptual ideas associated with inclined planes. The mission consists of 34 questions organized into 9 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
 

Learning Outcomes

• The student should be able to identify the forces acting upon an object upon an inclined plane and determine the value and recognize the importance of the components of the weight vector.
• The student should be able to compare forces and force components for objects placed upon inclined planes.

 

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Getting Help

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The Physics Classroom, Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions Unit, Lesson 3, Part e
 

• What does the free-body diagram look like for an object placed upon an inclined plane?
• What force causes an object to accelerate down an inclined plane and how does one compute its value?
• How does one determine the force of friction for an object on an inclined plane?
• As an inclined plane angle is increased (or decreased), what happens to the parallel component of the weight vector?
• How does one mathematically analyze a situation involving an object upon an inclined plane?

 
 

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Inclined Planes

  

 

 

Question-Specific Help

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