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Diagram: Apparatus:
Design:
Design a procedure to test how a certain variable (of your choice) may affect the rate of an oscillating
torsional pendulum that includes appropriate use of apparatus for the control, collection and analysis
of data. As always, this should design lab should include:
Step by step instructions and diagrams are helpful to the reader and highly recommended.
Also include a quantitative hypothesis for your investigation together with a sketch graph of what you
think will happen.
Note: It is important to realize that the period of such a pendulum is NOT the time of one revolution,
but instead the time taken for a stationary twisted pendulum to spin in one direction, stop briefly, and
then wind itself back up. This completes one cycle.
• In light of the weaknesses and limitations suggested above, suggest ways in which the procedure
could be modified in order to improve it for the future.
The above information was given to the student by the instructor. What follows immediately
below is the student’s own work.