Day: February 6, 2009

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Pendulums

For his science fair project, Jonathan investigated pendulums.  His hypothesis was that how fast the pendulum swings, its period, should depend on how heavy it was.  So I arranged to have 1-inch diameter pendulum bobs made of copper, steel, and wood.  We suspended each from a horizontal beam, carefully measured so they were all the …

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