Conical Pendulum

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Condition :   Good  
Principle :   Conservation of Angular Momentum  
Area of Study :  Mechanics   
Equipment :   Short pendulum, wireless video camera.
Procedure :   Set the pendulum up with the wireless camera about 1ft above the pendulum pivot.  Start the pendulum in circular motion and observe the cone scribed out by the pendulum string.
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   References

Thomas Moses and Natalie L. Adolphi,  "A New Twist for the Conical Pendulum,"  TPT, Vol. 36, # 6, p. 372, (Sept. 1998).

"The Conical Pendulum", TPT, Vol. 1, # 5, Nov. 1963, p. 238.

G. Freier, "The Conical Pendulum", TPT, Vol. 2, # 5, May 1964, p. 238.

 

A. Dupre, P. Janssen, "An Accurate Determination of the Acceleration of Gravity "g" in the Undergraduate Laboratory",  AJP, Vol.  68, # 8, p. 704, August 2000. 

H. Brinkman and S. Otter, "Electrically Stimulated Conical Pendulum Showing the Particle Acceleration in an Isochronous Cyclotron", AJP, Vol. 35, # 11, Nov. 1967, p. ix.

 

M- 784:  "Pendulum and Bottle,"  DICK and RAE Physics Demo Notebook.

 

M-138,160:  Richard Manliffe Sutton,  Demonstration Experiments in Physics.

 

Robert Ehrlich,  "Conical Pendulum,"  Turning the World Inside Out, p.  74- 75.



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