During the lab, my partner Olivia and I chose to work on the effect slope has on the speed of a race car. In our findings, we saw that the higher the slope the faster the car went down the slide. Olivia and I predicted this but we were unsure of why we believed this other than this was just a fact we knew. According to the textbook, net force plays a role in forces of motion if equal force is applied to both ends of an object the object does not move, but if the force of an object is unbalanced this causes the object to move. Looking at this through Olivias and I's experiment we are able to see there is a force unbalance. The force unbalance is what causes our race car to move, and the reason the car moves fastest at a higher angle is because the unbalance is more prominent. The lecture today also talked about how steepness affects the speed of something which is important to understand when looking at Olivia and I's experiment. According to the lecture the more tilt of an object the less gravitational force, which correlates to the statement the higher the slide the longer the object has to accelerate. This supports the evidence that the higher the slide the faster the object goes.
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