Build Yourself a Pendulum Activity
Grade Level: Middle and High School
Discipline: Physics
Standards: HS-PS4-1: Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.
This lab is meant to demonstrate to students that a pendulum’s mass has no effect on its period (which is contrary to many students’ misconception that a larger mass will “slow” the pendulum, resulting in a different period).
- Students will be able to measure the amplitude and period of a pendulum with varying mass and length.
- Students will be able to draw conclusions on if and how bob mass, pendulum length, and amplitude of the pendulum swing affect the pendulum’s period.
Learn more by downloading the lab above.
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