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1. Why did you time 10 complete
revolutions instead of a single revolution to determine the period (T) of the
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time for one period was less than one second for most of the added
masses. Human reaction time being what
it is would make it very difficult to get an accurate measurement over that
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2. If you made a plot of period
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3. If you made a plot of period
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y-intercept is what is added after the mass and
there is nothing there. So; |
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4. If you made a plot of Ln(period) vs Ln(mass), what would your slope be? |
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Using
rules of logs we can rewrite this equation to look
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