Objectives
• To study the motion of a simple pendulum
• To learn the relationships between the period, frequency and length of a simple pendulum
• To determine the acceleration due to gravity using the motion of a simple pendulum
• To investigate conservation of mechanical energy in a simple pendulum
• Analyzing topics of damped pendulum
• Calculation of idle time and damping constant
Curriculum alignments
• NGSS
HS-PS3-2 Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motion of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative positions of particles (objects).
• AP
6.1 Period of Simple Harmonic Oscillators
6.2 Energy of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator
• Cambirege A Level
17.1 Simple harmonic oscillations
17.2 Energy in simple harmonic motion 1
7.3 Damped and forced oscillations, resonance