The Pendulum Experiment

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The Pendulum Experiment Galileo Galilei was a scientist who earlier in his career researched and studied the movements, motions, and characteristics of the pendulum. He used bobbers made of lead and cork and hung a 29 cm long string with the bobber from his ceiling. When he was done understanding the way they actually worked he later than started using them to a great extent in his experiments. These pendulums are described in both Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems and his Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. He describes some of the major things he witnessed about pendulums. Today we emulated the same experiment using some of the same concepts that were used by Galileo, only difference was we tested six different weights steel, copper, brass, wood cork and lead. The first step we did was get a piece of string and measured out 100 cm. we then connected one of the bobs to the string. Using a stand and clamp I clamp down the string pull the bob back using a protractor in an arch about 10 degrees. Release it and count the number of vibrations for one minute. We instead counted the number of cycle in 15 second intervals then multiplied that answer by four. We tested three trials for each amplitude, averaged out our findings and recorded all of our data. We repeated these steps with each weight and again recorded all of our data. Interesting part out of the whole experiment was to see that yes the weight of each bobber had an effect on the pendulum. For example the bobber of lead had a weight of 87.5 grams. Each trial period of 15 seconds, the lead bobber had a result of 8 cycles we then add up the trials which add up to 24 then divide by the number of trial periods which in this case was three and got an average of 32. The cork bobber on the other

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