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7 2

9 3

1-Base 2-Guide column 3-Carriage

4-Load 5-Guide rollers 6-Damper

7-Helical spring 8-Adjuster 9- Mech. recorder

Procedure for finding the spring constant (k)

1- The graph paper and a pen were fitted in the mechanical recorder. Both of them were adjusted
to ensure it is not too tight or too loose during maneuvering the experiment.
2- Next, the adjuster was used to extend the helical spring till the pen reached to the point of 20
mm in the graph paper. Then, the remote was turned on to test whether or not it was
accurately lined up on the graph paper.
3- After it was perfectly set-up, we begun the experiment by record the deflection using
mechanical recorder at initial point (20mm), by turned on the apparatus and stopped it when it
was having along about 15mm in x-axis.
4- After that, step 3 were repeated to determine the deflection load of ( ) by placing the load in
the carriage.

Procedure for finding the natural frequency (f)

1- The graph paper and a pen were fitted in the mechanical recorder. Both of them were adjusted
to ensure it is not too tight or too loose during maneuvering the experiment.
2- Next, the adjuster was used to extend the helical spring till the pen reached to the point of
50mm, which is the middle the graph paper. Then, the remote was turned on to test whether
or not it was accurately lined up on the graph paper.
3- After it was perfectly set-up, we begun the experiment by having a person to pull down the
carriage and released it at the same time the mechanical recorder turned on. After, it was
oscillated about 10period we stopped the recorder.
4- After that, step 3 were repeated by placing the load of () in the carriage.
5- Precaution of when having this experiment was to be more gently when pulling the carriage
so that it will not vibrating too much or else the load may crack the carriage.

Abstract

Free vibration experiment and natural frequency of spring mass system were done to achieve
its objectives which are to determine the trend analysis of spring constant (k) and natural frequency
(f). The way we done this experiment to determine the spring constant (k) was by measuring the
deflection line in the graph paper which is contingent upon the elongation/ extension of the spring
from its initial point. Referring to the final graph result, we can conclude that the relationship between
these two variable, load – spring extension are directly proportional towards each other. The
experimental value of the spring constant (k) we gained was 1.757 N/mm meanwhile the theoretical
value of standard value of spring constant is 1.71 N/mm. Thus, the percentage of error we obtained
from calculation was 2.74%. Next, the way we analyze the value of the frequency (f) in the
experiment was by using the oscillating system in the apparatus. By vibration of the spring and load,
we obtained the waving graph result. From that, we calculated the value of the period (T) and
subsequently calculated the value of natural frequency (f). From the calculation, we can conclude that
the heavier the load (kg) will mitigate the number of the oscillation, ultimately the value of natural
frequency (f) will decrease. The difference between the value of theoretical value and experimental
value were quite dissimilar from each other depending of the mass of the load. This also may actually
come from error that happened during the process of experiment for example random error. As a
conclusion, it were provable that from the experiment, we managed to obtained the spring constant (k)
and natural frequency of mass (f), which are the main objective of the experiment.