Thursday, December 8, 2016

Lab 17 - Finding the Moment of Inertia of a Uniform Triangle about its Center of Mass

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Purpose: To determine the moment of inertia of a triangle on a spinning base by using a hanging mass with known value, without havin...

Lab 16 - Angular Acceleration

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Purpose : To study how different factors affect the values for angular acceleration and moment of inertia. Then calculate values for the...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Lab 18 - A Lab Problem- Moment of Inertia and Frictional Torque

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Purpose : To predict the time for a cart on a downward-angled track to descend 1meter at a 40 degree incline, that is tied by a light string...

Lab 19 - Conservation of Energy/Conservation of Angular Momentum

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Purpose : To use conservation of angular momentum and angular kinetic energy to predict how high a swinging meter stick will go after co...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Lab 20 - Conservation of Linear and Angular Momentum

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Purpose : To make a connection between conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum through torque mechanics and moment of inertia...

Lab 21 - Mass-Spring Oscillations Lab

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Purpose : To prove that the equation for period(below) is true. T=2Pi*Sqrt(m/k) Theory : The period of a mass-spring system can be ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Lab 22 - Physical Pendulum Lab

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Purpose To derive expressions for the period of differently shaped pendulums of varying mass and compare them to actual measured peri...