LAB B
Mehar Ghei
LABORATORY EXPERIMENT REPORT
Name:
Mehar Ghei
Group Members:
Nicole Tran, Yvonne Chen, Nakib Junayed
Experiment Date:
Tuesday, November 30
th
, 2010
Course Name:
PHYS 111A
Section:
H01
Instructor:
Beidi He
LABORATORY #B
Simple Harmonic Motion
1.
OBJECTIVE
-
To determine the spring constant
k
by stretching the spring and applying
Hooke’s Law.
-
To verify that the period of vibration of a body on a spring is independent
of the amplitude, and is given by:
=
T
2πmk
-
To measure the period T of a simple pendulum as a function of the length
L of the pendulum and to verify that it is given by:
=
T
2πLg
2.
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
=-
F
ks
=
F
mg
=-
mg
ks
3.
EQUIPMENT
The equipment used for both parts of this lab:
•
Spring
•
Masses
•
Rods
•
Meter stick
•
Hanger
•
Timer
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4.
COLLECTED DATA
PART 1:
y
o
=19 cm
Hanger: 50g
m (kg)
Mg (N)
y
1
(m)
D=y
1
-y
o
(m)
0.05
0.49
0.19
0
0.15
1.47
0.197
0.007
0.2
1.96
0.215
0.025
0.25
2.45
0.254
0.064
0.3
2.94
0.274
0.084
0.35
3.43
0.294
0.104
0.4
3.92
0.314
0.124
0.45
4.41
0.335
0.145
0.5
4.9
0.355
0.165
Figure : Weight (N) vs. displacement (m)
k= 21.394N/m
PART 2:
300g+50g (hanger)

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