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What is the relationship between the angle of an incline and the acceleration of an object moving down the incline? How would you determine the acceleration using the angle?

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The relationship between angle of an incline and the acceleration of an object moving down the incline.

As the angle of an incline increases, so does the acceleration of the body moving down the incline increases, resolving the force acting on an inclined object

Parallel force = mgsin, perpendicular = mgcosΘ

With th weigh component 'mg' of the parallel force accounting for the acceleration of the body down the incline.

mgsinΘ = ma

Fnet = ma

B.) From Fnet = ma

Fnet = ma

a = Fnet / m

Where Fnet = Net force = mgsinΘ, a = acceleration

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