The quantity that the students were holding constant is acceleration. According to Newton's second law (F = ma), if they concluded that tripling the mass requires tripling the net force, they are implying that they kept the acceleration the same while changing the mass and force.
A group of students conducted several trials of an experiment to study Newton’s second law of motion. They concluded that tripling the mass required tripling the net force applied. What quantity were the students holding constant?(1 point)
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net force
net force
mass
mass
number of trials
number of trials
acceleration
acceleration
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1 answer