The Accuracy Of A Pendulum In Disney, Knott's

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A pendulum, is what is used in many rides, generally in, Disney, Knott's Berry, and 6 Flags. A pendulum makes the ride move back and forth in a swaying motion like a swing. It is fixed at a point so gravity propels the object swing back and forth. There is a concept of an ideal period in a pendulum. The time it takes for a pendulum to swing back to its original position where it started is what you would call, an “ideal period”. The group will be determining whether or not it is possible for a pendulum of 45 degrees or less to have an constant/ideal period of 1.5 seconds.

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In the end, we had a lot of data. The group differentiated all the data from what the group did. On some of them the group had to change the length of the yarn and in …show more content…

Although the group tried its best to get accurate data some problems that could have affected the data would have been that we used 2 timers, and we would pick the better time out of the 2. So that could have affected the reliability/accuracy of the groups data. On one of our samples(of data) was at angle of 45 degrees and the group tested it out 3 times at that angle giving us, 1.45sec, 1.56sec, and 1.35sec. Now you as the reader can see that in general this is relatively very close to a 1.5 period. So in the group's general consensus we had completed our mission of getting a 1.5 period. Little did the group know but along the way of graphing the average of all times for all the different ball elements (cork&steel) it was discovered that at no matter what angle less than 45 degrees the pendulum would always be at a 1.5 second period. The graph proved this because when all points where connected it was a straight line which means it was constant. Therefore the group came to the conclusion that no matter what variable you change, whether it be the measure of the angle, the string length(holding the ball), or even the element/mass of the ball, it did not matter because you would always get a 1.5 second

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