BY 1108

uniform circular motion

POPSARUT THANAREE THANAWIN
KHAWNCHANOK
 introduction
      Everything is spinning. The earth is spinning and that makes
everything on it move according to its spin. Luckily, with inertia, we
don’t fly away due to its spin. So what is causing this or is being the
concept of this is circular motion and also rotational inertia.

      Circular motion or rotational motion is when an object turns about

an internal axis, according to the physics textbook. When an object is
being through a rotational motion, inertia also occurs similarly to linear
motion. That object tends to remain in the same rotational motion or
spin unless there is an external force / unbalanced force applied onto
the object. Another main concept is the Centripetal force. It is the
force that brings the object in a rotational motion toward the spinning
axis. With all of these concepts, almost any circular motion in the real
world could be explained.

     In this experiment, we are trying to prove that the force which is
directed toward the center or Centripetal force is equal to the mass of
the hanging object. With this experiment, we are able to see the
relationship between the centripetal force and the way that it affects
the mass hanging on the end of the rope and also understand more
about the concept of centripetal force.
 objective

To study the forces involved in the motion of a body

moving with constant speed in a circular path.
To see that weight and the radius ( the length of the rope )
affects the rounds of spinning.
To prove that there are Centripetal force presenting in a
circular motion.
To apply the concept of Circular Motion to real life.
 materials
material

50g weight hanger and 50g

metal bar
Rope that is tied with a
marble on an end of the rope
and the handle on another.
Safety Goggles
set up
 procedure

Set up the materials for the experiment according to the

procedure in the experiment sheet and edit some tables in
the experiment sheet
First, use the 50g metal bar to hang on the bottom side of
the rope and swing the marble that is located on the other
side for 30 seconds in a small radius by holding the tube on
the rope.
Count the revolutions of the swing while swinging. Record it
in the sheet.
Measure the radius of the swing then record the data in the
sheet.
Repeat 2 - 4 but by swinging in a long radius.
Add another 50g on the metal bar and repeat 2 - 5
data and result
 analysis

 According to the charts, we can see that that;

     The first chart which we hang the 50g metal bar with the 49000
Mg object and tied them with a rope. First, we started with doing
experiment with the short radius, the length(radius) of the rope is
20 cm. On the second time, we experiment with the long length of a
rope, the radius of a rope is 65.5 cm. The result according to this
chart is that the revolution from the shorter radius of the rope has
more revolution from the longer radius of the rope.

    For the second chart which we hang the 100g metal bar with the
98000 Mg object and tied with a rope. On the third time, we swing
with the short length of a rope, the length(radius) of a rope is 26    
 
    cm. The fourth time, we experiment with the long length of the  
  
    rope, the radius of a rope is 52 cm. The result according to this  
    chart is similar to the first chart because the short radius has
    more revolutions than the long.
   From these two charts, we can conclude that the length of a rope is
affected on velocity. The longer length from the center has more
velocity than the shorter length from the center because of the
formula, 2rntime  , shows that if there is more radius, there is more
velocity. Not only the velocity that affected by the radius, but also the
centripetal acceleration is affected by the radius too. However, there is
a big difference between these. For the centripetal acceleration, if
there is more radius, the centripetal acceleration is less because as the
formula of the centripetal acceleration is a = v2r, It shows that we need
to divide by the radius. In conclusion, the bigger the radius, the less the
acceleration. As we can see in the chart that the number of the
centripetal force from the first chart are all less than the second chart.
The thing that cause this difference is the hooked mass. According to
the formula of the centripetal force, mV2r, we can see that we need to
multiply by mass also, so the mass is also the thing that affects the
result, and it is the reason why the results of the centripetal force from
the second chart are more than the results from the first chart.
 conclusion

      In this experiment we swing the same object(ball) but we put

different amount of mass and distance of radius or the rope. Firstly,
we tie together hanger, the rope and the marble preparing for
spinning the circle. The first table is for 50 grams of weight and we
started to swing ball of bar 2 times and each time with different the
distance of the rope away from the center/radius. And the second
table is for 100 grams of weight, but the other part of the
experiment is the same thing with the first one.

      After this experiment, we started to calculate the velocity,

Centripetal Acceleration and Centripetal Force by calculating with
the method and it makes us understand more about the concept of
Centripetal force.

      However, the results that we get weren’t what we supposed to

get, so we learned that we did something wrong in the experiment,
so we need to be more careful the next time we do the experiment
to not repeat the same mistake again.
 Reference

Notes from the class

Information from the book

work log