Question

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 mass
the mass

zero
zero

the velocity
the velocity

the inverse of the mass

Answer 1

In this scenario, we are looking at a graph of force versus acceleration for motorboats of the same mass. According to Newton's second law (F = ma), where F is the force, m is the mass, and a is the acceleration, the relationship forms a linear equation where the slope of the graph would be the mass (m) and the y-intercept would be zero.

Therefore, the y-intercept of this graph is:

**zero**.