Pendulum lab

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Pendulum lab

• In 1583 in the Cathedral of Pisa, Galileo watched
  a swinging alter lamp. He had no clock, no watch
  and yet he came to realize the truth about the
  pendulum by accurately timing its swings. How did
  he do that?
• You are going to carry out a lab and you will
  make some conclusions about a swinging pendulum.
• You will need some string, a weight, a meter
  stick, a stopwatch, a recorder and collector of
  data.
• Your team must decide HOW it could best report
  the data you are collecting so that it is
  visually easy to read.
• You will swing a weight on a string. You will
  vary the height from which you release the weight
  and time its swings. Then you will vary the
  length of the string, make it shorter, longer,
  drop it from the same height each time and time
  the swings.
• Hypothesize about the time of the swings with
  each variable. Be sure to record all the numeric
  values for each variable.
• Again, BE SURE TO RECORD all VALUES AND COME UP
  WITH A DANDY WAY OF REPORTING YOUR EXPERIMENTAL
  RESULTS and BE SURE YOU WRITE OUT A CONCLUSION!
  Afterall, WHAT did you learn! Was your hypothesis
  right or wrong??
• 20 points.
• DUE_______________________________________________
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