«Science» Virtual Laboratory

Atwood Machine

The Virtual Laboratory is a three-dimensional interactive virtual environment for studying and researching uniform and uniformly accelerated motion, as well as Newton’s second law, using a virtual «Atwood Machine» setup.

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The «Atwood Machine» Virtual Laboratory allows exploration of uniformly accelerated motion of a system of bodies, consisting of two weights connected by a thread and a fixed pulley. The Atwood Machine – a stand-mounted device – is an expensive and rare setup. Typically, the study of such motion takes place in schools only «on paper».

The application will allow you to conduct a series of experiments. For them, options for equipment are provided that are not found in real laboratories. For example, an extended set of overload weights for the setup.

  • Adjust the position of brackets on the device to change the segments of the path traversed by the system of bodies.

  • A stopwatch will divide the motion time into two segments: with overload and without it.

  • Determine the mass of unknown overloads.

The «Science» Virtual Laboratory, section «Atwood Machine» is:

  • The «Atwood Machine» - an «ideal» virtual laboratory device for studying translational motion with constant acceleration, as conceived by the English physicist and mathematician George Atwood.

  • The «Ideal Atwood Machine» has the following design: an inextensible and weightless thread is thrown over a weightless pulley, in the axis of which there is no friction, secured at a certain height above the table, to the ends of which two bodies with different masses are tied. When the masses of the bodies are equal, the system is in a state of equilibrium regardless of the position of the weights. If the masses of the bodies are not equal, the entire system of bodies comes into translational motion.

  • The opportunity to form students' understanding and knowledge of uniform and uniformly accelerated motion, as well as Newton's second law, record the obtained results in a laboratory journal, and formulate conclusions based on the obtained data.

  • The ability to conduct experiments or laboratory work using a virtual ``Atwood Machine``, accurately modeling the real device, without the need to purchase expensive equipment.

The «Science» Virtual Laboratory, section «Atwood Machine»

Виртуальная лаборатория «НАУКА», раздел «Машина Атвуда»
Виртуальная лаборатория «НАУКА», раздел «Машина Атвуда»
Виртуальная лаборатория «НАУКА», раздел «Машина Атвуда»
Виртуальная лаборатория «НАУКА», раздел «Машина Атвуда»
Виртуальная лаборатория «НАУКА», раздел «Машина Атвуда»

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