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    Accelerating On A Ramp

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    The document discusses accelerating a toy car up and down a ramp. When rolling down the ramp, gravity pulls the car down the slope faster than friction can slow it down, causing acceleration. When winding up the car to roll up the ramp, the force from the wound wheels exceeds gravity down the slope, allowing friction to accelerate the car up if it does not slip. Free body diagrams are drawn to illustrate the forces on the car both accelerating up and down the ramp.

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    The document discusses accelerating a toy car up and down a ramp. When rolling down the ramp, gravity pulls the car down the slope faster than friction can slow it down, causing acceleration. When winding up the car to roll up the ramp, the force from the wound wheels exceeds gravity down the slope, allowing friction to accelerate the car up if it does not slip. Free body diagrams are drawn to illustrate the forces on the car both accelerating up and down the ramp.

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    The document discusses accelerating a toy car up and down a ramp. When rolling down the ramp, gravity pulls the car down the slope faster than friction can slow it down, causing acceleration. When winding up the car to roll up the ramp, the force from the wound wheels exceeds gravity down the slope, allowing friction to accelerate the car up if it does not slip. Free body diagrams are drawn to illustrate the forces on the car both accelerating up and down the ramp.

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    Accelerating On A Ramp

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    Gaurav Agarwal
    The document discusses accelerating a toy car up and down a ramp. When rolling down the ramp, gravity pulls the car down the slope faster than friction can slow it down, causing acceleration. When winding up the car to roll up the ramp, the force from the wound wheels exceeds gravity down the slope, allowing friction to accelerate the car up if it does not slip. Free body diagrams are drawn to illustrate the forces on the car both accelerating up and down the ramp.

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    Accelerating on a Ramp

    Apparatus
    wind up toy car, ramp
    Action
    The students allow the car to roll down the ramp (without winding it up). They draw a free body
    diagram showing the forces acting on the trolley.
    They then wind the car up so that it can accelerate up the ramp for at least a short distance. They
    should draw a free body diagram showing the forces on the car as it climbs the slope.
    The Physics
    The forces acting on the toy car as it rolls down are gravity, friction and the normal force. The
    component of gravity along the direction of the slope is greater than any frictional forces and gives an
    acceleration down the ramp.
    When the toy car is wound up and set to climb the ramp its wheels exert a force on the ground.
    The ground exerts an equal and opposite force, due to friction, on the cars wheels which push the car. As
    long as the coefficient of friction is great enough that slipping does not occur, and the force on the wheels
    is greater than the component of gravity down the hill, the car will accelerate.
    accelerating up:

    accelerating down:
    N = mgcos

    Ffriction due to ground

    N = mgcos

    Ffriction
    mgsin
    + Ffriction due to air

    mgsin
    mgscos

    mgscos

    Accompanying sheet

    Accelerating on a Ramp
    Place the car at the top of the ramp and release it.
    What happens? Why?
    Draw a free body diagram of the car.
    How does a car accelerate up a hill?
    Draw a free body diagram showing the forces acting to accelerate a car up a hill.
    A car with some initial speed reaches a downwards slope
    and the driver allows the car to roll down the hill.
    Will the car necessarily accelerate?

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