Pendulum

Personal Experience with Trapeze?

 The closest experience I have is the mokey bars, when I was a kid. I would rap my legs around the bars and let my body act as the pedulum. Well and of course the swing set.

What applications to real life do swinging objects have?

 First, thing that comes to mind are grandfather clocks.

 Prediction of the two people are on one trapeze The trapeze with two will go farther, because there is more mass so the trapeze will swing further.

Understanding or ideas of the science behind swinging back and forth.
 Not much...

 Pendulum Predictions

 Two= More swings and faster
Three= higher frequency
 Four= Even higher frequency

 Unfortunately I was wrong. Well I shouldn't say that it is a bag thing because I have finally learned how it works. We even played with droping it from bigger angles but it never changed the frequency.
 The average stayed between 8 and 9.

 Questions I have:
 Will it return to the same point?
Does the frequency change with bigger angles?
Is there anything I can do to change the frequency?
What happens if I make the string longer?
How does a clock pendulum work?
How do I create what I saw in the videos?

 Assignment:

a) We can answer questions with figuring out if the pendulum will ever return to the same point. Basically all the questions can be answered except the clock question.
 b) clock pendulum would require more material. The only thing would be to find a way to better accurately measure if the pendulum will return to the same point. Oh and maybe extra material to make the pendulums that we watched on the videos.
 c) Well we would have to bring in a clock and do a little research to see what the parts of a clock are. I want to take apart a clock and see how the parts work. Probably be expensive.
d) Really the two that interest me the most are the clock and video pendulum.  My grandpa had a grandfather clock and I was always curious why it needed the pendulum when other clocks did not.  :)