Activities

Measure the period of the motion for a particular set of initial conditions. Investigate what happens to the period as you adjust ...

1. The mass of the ball.
2. The initial angle of the pendulum.
3. The length of the string.
4. The value of the acceleration due to gravity.
5. See if you can write an equation for the period of the pendulum as a function of some or all of the parameters above, that works for small-amplitude oscillations.