Warm-up: Drawing free-body diagrams
Free-body diagrams are a helpful tool for keeping the magnitude and direction of applied forces clear. In this lab, keeping clear, detailed free-body diagrams will help you interpret the results of your experiments.
Free body diagrams: Warm-up
Draw the following free-body diagrams (FDBs), which are also represented in the schematics below. We encourage you to try to draw each FBD yourself before attempting the matching game below.
a) A shoe in free fall (remember Lab 1).
b) A shoe at rest on a table.
c) A shoe at rest on a ramp inclined at angle θ.
d) A shoe accelerating down a ramp at angle φ.
Before moving on!
Make sure you have drawn and understood each free-body diagram from the examples! They will be useful in the exercises to come.
