Sunday, September 9, 2012

More pendulum business

Sorry for the delay in posting this.  No worries if you can't get to it by Tuesday.

You've had some time to "play" with the pendulum.

What is the next step?  How should you proceed?  Think about these things and write down your thoughts.

Ultimately, we are interested in some type of physical and/or mathematical relationship.  Maybe even an equation? Let's say, for example, that we want to know exactly how the length of a pendulum sets the time required for one complete swing (if indeed it does).  How can we best collect data and analyze this data?  What is "enough" data to be convinced?  What would convince you?  How and what will we graph, if anything?  What can a graph tell us here?

We'll be doing this in class on Tuesday.  Think about this problem - what is our best approach

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