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Several motorboats with the same mass are used in an experiment. The forces of the different motors versus their accelerations are graphed. What is the y-intercept of this graph? (1 point) Responses the velocity the velocity the inverse of the mass the inverse of the mass the mass the mass zero
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GPT-4o mini
In a graph of force (F) versus acceleration (a) for several motorboats with the same mass (m), the relationship is given by Newton's second law, which states that \( F = m \cdot a \).
When this equation is rearranged in the form of a linear equation \( F = m \cdot a + 0 \), it indicates that if you plot force on the y-axis and acceleration on the x-axis, the y-intercept is 0. This is because when acceleration is zero (which corresponds to the x-axis), the force is also zero (the corresponding point on the y-axis).
So, the y-intercept of this graph is **zero**.
When this equation is rearranged in the form of a linear equation \( F = m \cdot a + 0 \), it indicates that if you plot force on the y-axis and acceleration on the x-axis, the y-intercept is 0. This is because when acceleration is zero (which corresponds to the x-axis), the force is also zero (the corresponding point on the y-axis).
So, the y-intercept of this graph is **zero**.