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Uniform Acceleration?98 Experiment 2 Objective: To study the kinematics of uniformly accelerated motion. DISCUSSION: According to the laws of falling bodies, an object sliding down a frictionless, inclined surface should do so at a constant acceleration. That is, its speed should increase in direct proportion to the lapse of time it slides from rest. The equation of motion is (1) where v is the speed, a the constant acceleration, and t the lapse of time. This equation defines what is meant by constant acceleration. For an object with an initial speed v0, this relation must be modif