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AP Physics C: Mechanics
1.3 Representing Motion
1.2 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
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A horizontal track is represented by a thick horizontal line resting on a flat surface. At the far left end of the track, a small upright rectangular block represents a motion sensor, labeled Sensor. Situated to the right of the sensor is a rectangular cart supported by two small circular wheels resting on the track. A horizontal arrow pointing to the right is centered above the cart and is labeled v. Directly below the track, a horizontal coordinate axis extends parallel to the track, beginning with a vertical tick mark aligned with the sensor labeled x = 0 and terminating on the right with an arrowhead labeled +x. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Experimental setup showing the motion sensor, cart, and coordinate axis along the track.
A cart moves along a straight horizontal track from rest at the origin at time \(t = 0\). An optical sensor records the cart's position \(x\) and speed \(v\), and the position data are well modeled by the equation \(x(t) = c t^{3/2}\), where \(c\) is an unknown positive constant. A student wants to linearize the relationship between \(v\) and \(x\) by plotting a function of \(v\) on the vertical axis and \(x\) on the horizontal axis to determine \(c\) from the slope \(S\) of the best-fit line. Which of the following quantities should be plotted on the vertical axis, and what is the resulting expression for \(c\) in terms of \(S\)?

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