Preview - Simple Harmonic Motion - Simple Pendulum

Investigating motion of a pendulum

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Describe your observations about how the displacement from the mean position of the pendulum changes as time progresses.

Describe your observations about how the velocity of the pendulum changes as time progresses.

Describe your observations about how the acceleration of the pendulum changes as time progresses.

Which parameter represents time in this model?

Find the time period of the pendulum.

How can you establish the relationship between ticks and one second?

(Hint: You will have to use the data you collected when you performed an experiment with a real pendulum. Skip this question if you have not performed the physical experiment.)

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