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Zanzabum
3 years ago
14

A student is trying to determine the acceleration of a feather as she drops it to the ground. if the student is looking to achie

ve a positive velocity and positive acceleration, what is the most sensible way to set up her coordinate system?
Physics
1 answer:
Anna [14]3 years ago
5 0

The coordinate system should have the origin at the point where the feather is dropped and the downward direction is to be taken as positive.

All falling bodies experience acceleration towards the center of the Earth due to the force of gravitational attraction exerted on the object by the Earth. A feather, when dropped experiences an acceleration in the downward direction. Since the acceleration of the feather is in the downward direction, a feather, when dropped with zero initial velocity, has its velocity vector directed in the direction of its acceleration.

If the downward direction is taken as positive, the falling feather can be said to have a positive velocity and a positive acceleration.

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