An Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Period of a Pendulum :: Papers

An Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Period of a Pendulum I could investigate the following factors * Angle of sack * Length of strand * Pendulum cargo I am going to investigate and regain if varying the distance of string will affect the period of the pendulum. My foresight is The longer the string the longer the period. The period will be longer as the pendulum has further to travel. My theory is demonstrated below. Pendulum A has a shorter string. This gives it a shorter period. Pendulum B has a longer string and has a much larger period as it has farther to travel to get from X to Y to X which is unrivalled period. IMAGE I made my prediction based on a forward experiment I have done. The length affected the period as stated above and I think this will happen again in this experiment. I looked at a clock with a pendulum to see how it worked. I found that to change the speed of a second you come up the length of the pole which the pendulum hangs from, so I also based my prediction on that as it is the same principle. I set up a trial experiment to running play out the following * Which cant over of displacement to use (e.g. 90) * How many readings to take * Which lengths of string to measure (e.g. every 10cm) * Where to carry out the experiment (on a desk/floor etc..) To ensure the test is fair I am going to * Use the same human of string * Use the same weight pendulum (preferably the exact same pendulum) * take on sure the string is measured entirely To ensure the test is unhazardous I am going to * Use a sensible angle of displacement * Not to swing the pendulum near others To ensure the test is accurate I am going to