wars igh 28 s 27 EXPERIMENT 5: SIFILAR SUSPES 1, Introduction The bifilar suspension is used to deternire the of inertia of a body about an axis passing trough tao centre of gravity. The sedy is suspercec cords of length 'z', distance ‘a’ apart. the body is 'M' (see Fi cord is Mg. If the systen is now displacee angle @ “at its centrat axis, then an angular disz” @ will be produced at the supports a 2 If poth angles are small, then i = <3. The restoring force at the point of attactrent thread B and 8] will be e Mgsind . MSP (for small 2} ue 2 2 . co Therefore, substituting for p = & 22 and the restoring couple is thus —US&=-¢ 4 Giving an equation of motion Is = -Mgd?+ é an 3+ Mete=o 4i2 Therefore the motion is S.H.M. of periodic tire T Scanned with CamScannerWed2T 2 Therefore 1 = Nog'T * Ver? T may be expressed as: T= 27. where d is the distance between tne wires {") i is the length of suspen: K is the radius of gyration of the tody about its centre of gravity. 2. Apparatus The apparatus (shown in Fig.5.2) consists of 2 uniform rectanguiar-bar suspended by fine wires fron the chucks used in Experiment 1. Thus the lengths of the suspeas may be al ed quite readily by drawing the wire througn the chuck and tightening. The beam is drilled at reguiar intervals along its length in order that two 1.85kg masses may be pegged at varying points along the bean. 3. Method The beam is firstly suspended by the wire and subsequently adjusted to some suitable length 2. The distance between the threads 'd' is measured accurately, before displacing the beam through some small angle. The time for 20 oscillations is then measured, from which the periodic time may be calculated. Scanned with CamScanner29 of the wires ¢ may then be adjusted, and a 20 swings timed. The inertia of the body ray be by placing the tvio masses either sice of the ne, and repeating the procedure for varicus values 2729 (b being the distance of separation of the + Having determined the parameters 2, 5, d and SOF gyration K may be calculated from: le of results is quoted in Fig.3.3 from which are found. A sample calculation for Test 1 is: where 1.433 sacs. = 9.8065m/s? ¢ = 0.482m = 1.15m Therefare, K = 1:433 x 0.482 8055 Lg 16m an 1.15 Scanned with CamScanner30 cal vaiue for K has been obtained equal to “25s of the Seam is known and is ecual to tees of i may be calculated from I = Ki! where & sCius of gyration previously calculated, and *t is 7 mass of the beam (with or without weights). ant values of I appear in colunn 7 of Fig nich it is evident that if 2 Constant x L , nence tests 2 and 3 produce s22] values of IT re the radius of gyration, and hence =, = would one determ of any body using the bifilar suspension? Scanned with CamScannerBi “Scanned with CamScanner