Experiment 6: The Simple Pendulum Results

Table 1: Effect of Amplitude on

Period
Length: 80.0cm Mass: 20.0g
Trial Amplitu Time to Perio
s de complete d
20vibratio (sec)
ns (sec)
1 5 34.42s 1.72
1s
2 10 36.25s 1.81
2s
3 15 36.54s 1.82
7s

Table 2: Effect of Mass on the

Period
Length: 80.0cm Amplitude: 10
Trial Mass (g) Time to Perio
s complete d
20vibratio (sec)
ns (sec)
1 5 36.25s 1.81
2s
2 10 36.45s 1.82
2s
3 15 36.78s 1.83
9s
 Table 3: Effect of Length of the Pendulum on the Period
Mass: 20.0g Amplitude: 10
Trials Length Time to Period Square Acceleration due Percenta
complete (sec) of the to gravity ge error
20vibratio period (cm/sec2) (m/sec2
ns (sec) (sec2) )
1 80.0c 36.25s 1.812 3.2752 961.364 9.614 1.90%
m s s2
2 60.0c 32.31s 1.615 2.6098 907.619 9.076 7.39%
m s s2
3 40.0c 25.48s 1.274 1.623s2 972.928 9.729 0.72%
m s
4 20.0c 17.30s 0.865 0.748s2 1055.291 10.55 7.68%
m s