Ballistic Pendulum (Revised May 22‚ 2012) GOALS (1) To determine the launch speed of the steel ball for the short‚ medium‚ and long range settings on the projectile launcher apparatus using the equations for projectile motion. (2) To use the concept of gravitational potential energy and energy conservation to determine the speed of the ball plus pendulum as it first begins to swing away from the vertical position after the “collision.” (3) To explore the relationships between the momentum
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Pendulum is an object that‚ due to action of gravitational force‚ swings back and forth at a regular rate around a fixed point if it is pulled aside and let go. A simple pendulum consists of a weight hanging at the end of a string or wire. The path travelled by the weight is called the arc of the pendulum. The period of oscillation is the time it takes the weight to pass back and forth once over this arc. The length of the pendulum is the distance between the point at which the pendulum is fixed
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simple harmonic motion using an oscillating pendulum. If I were to design an experiment that would help me study the properties of an oscillating pendulum and investigate what causes a pendulum to swing faster or slower‚ I would prepare several masses (e.g. 20g‚ 50g‚ 100g‚ 200g‚ etc.) that can be attached to a string‚ several strings of varying lengths from 0.1m to 1.0m that are strong enough to support the weight of the masses‚ support for each pendulum‚ a stopwatch‚ and a measuring tool such as
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these inverted pendulum-like movements. We collected kinematic and ground reaction force data from dogs walking over a range of speeds. We found that the fore and hind quarters of dogs behaved like two independent bipeds‚ each vaulting up and over its respective support limb. The center of mass moved up and down twice per stride‚ like a single walking biped‚ and up to 70% of the mechanical energy required to lift and accelerate the center of mass was recovered via the inverted pendulum mechanism. To
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Thesis Sentence Characteristics of a thesis sentence It is a sentence It names the topic of your paper and contains an interpretive assertion about your topicin other words‚ you are saying something about the topic that is an opinion-based statement about the meaning of the work It is debatableit is not merely factual or obvious but requires convincing proof of its validity. A factual statement is verified by data or merely reflects the facts of the work (such as plot). An obvious statement is
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The gothic period is remembered for its artistic conventions as the architecture and the literature. That period was one the longest and complex periods of the history of humanity‚ it was between the 12th and the 15th centuries‚ but it has a very huge influenced on romantic works of the 19th century. Many facts affected this time‚ the bubonic plague which reduces the population of the world nearly to it half‚ also the influence of the Roman Catholic Church which was the most important patron during
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Oscillations of a pendulum with a yielding support Instructor: Mr. Imran khan Cohort: Full Time Student Name & ID: Kyle Rigsby 68891 Date: 11/19/2014 Title page Oscillations of a pendulum with a yielding support Abstract Intent: The goal was to investigate the time taken for the pendulum to oscillate for a time period. Results: Table of Content Objectives i) Tie the end of a thread to a hole in the end of a metal plate so that the length l of the pendulum is about 0.5m
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incision through your skin. You scream a terrible bloodcurdling scream. The blade continues to swing‚ back and forth‚ with the expected fall‚ then and eventually‚ your demise. This is more or less the exact scenario of Edgar Allan Poe ’s “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” but is also a scene from James McTeigue ’s 2012 film‚ The Raven. The movie is a detective horror film that describes an alternate way Edgar Allan Poe spent the last five days of his life‚ saying he chased after a serial killer that recreated
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both tests make use of a pendulum-testing machine. For both tests‚ the specimen is broken by a single overload event due to the impact of the pendulum. A stop pointer is used to record how far the pendulum swings back up after fracturing the specimen. The impact toughness of a metal is determined by measuring the energy absorbed in the fracture of the specimen. This is simply obtained by noting the height at which the pendulum is released and the height to which the pendulum swings after it has struck
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the project of creating a device to secure eggs in a collision with a pendulum at increasing velocities‚ I immediately thought of a car crash. Cars must be built that so that they will protect the passengers during any type of collision‚ like my project must be built to protect the eggs. Upon this thinking I decided to design my egg crash project like the design of a car. I would create an inelastic collision between the pendulum and project‚ meaning
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