General Physics Laboratory Report

EXPERIMENT

DETERMINATION OF GRAVITATIONAL
ACCELERATION WITH A REVERSIBLE PENDULUM
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I. Aims/Purposes:
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II. Method, Equipment and Procedure:
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III. Equations:
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IV. Experimental Data:
IV.1 Table 1:
Weighted position (mm) 50T1 (s) 50T2 (s)
x0 = 0 mm
x0+40 = 40mm
x1 = ..................mm
 IV.2 Raw data:

95

90

85

T(s)
80

75

70
0 10 20 30 40 50

X (mm)

IV.3 Table 2: At the best position x1', physical pendulum becomes T1= T2 = T:
Best position x'1 =.................................. (mm)
Data 50T1 (s)  (50T1) 50T2 (s)  (50T2)
1
2
3
Mean
V. Calculations:
V.1Determine the oscillating period of the reversible pendulum:
Calculate the mean period T of the reversible pendulum from the values in table 2:
1 (50 T 1 +50 T 2 )
T= . =… … …( s)
50 2
1 ( ∆50 T 1+ ∆ 50 T 2 )
 Random error of T: ∆ T = . =… … … …( s)
50 2
0.01
 Systematic error of T: ∆ T sys=¿ =… … … (s )
50
V.2Calculate the gravitational acceleration:
4 π2 L m
 Calculate the mean value of gravitational acceleration: g= 2 =… … … ( 2 )
T s
∆g ∆π ∆ L ∆T
 Calculate the relative error of g: =2 + +2 =δ
ǵ π Ĺ T́
m
=> ∆ ∆ g=δ . ǵ=… … …( 2 )
s
VI. Conclusions:
m
g=g ± ∆ g=… … … ± … … …( 2 )
s