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Pendulum Energy Lab Report

The document outlines an online lab assignment focused on pendulums and energy, requiring students to fill out data tables related to potential energy at various points in the pendulum's swing. It includes calculations for potential energy at different angles and positions, as well as comparisons between potential and kinetic energy throughout the swing. Additionally, the assignment emphasizes the conservation of energy principle as it applies to the pendulum's motion.

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Pendulum Energy Lab Report

The document outlines an online lab assignment focused on pendulums and energy, requiring students to fill out data tables related to potential energy at various points in the pendulum's swing. It includes calculations for potential energy at different angles and positions, as well as comparisons between potential and kinetic energy throughout the swing. Additionally, the assignment emphasizes the conservation of energy principle as it applies to the pendulum's motion.

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Assignment:
Pendulums and Energy Online Lab

Part 1: Potential Energy During the Swing of a Pendulum


1. Fill out the data table based on the swing of the pendulum.

Distance from Height of bob Height of the


Location of the top to the compared to bob compared Mass (kg) Potential
the lowest to the lowest Gravity (m/s2)
pendulum bob bottom of the Energy (J)
bob (cm) point of swing point of swing
(cm) (m)

Straight down

45° angle on
the right

Halfway down
to the bottom

Halfway up to
highest point
on the left

Highest point
on the left

2. Determine the potential energy of the pendulum bob when it is hanging straight down.
Show your work for the calculation and place your answer in the data table above.

3. Determine the potential energy of the pendulum bob when it is at a 45° angle. Show
your work for the calculation and place your answer in the data table above.

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4. Determine the potential energy of the pendulum bob when it is halfway down on the
right side. Show your work for the calculation and place your answer in the data table
above.

5. Determine the potential energy of the pendulum bob when it is halfway up on the left
side. Show your work for the calculation and place your answer in the data table above.

6. Determine the potential energy of the pendulum bob when it is at its highest point on the
left side. Show your work for the calculation and place your answer in the data table above.

7. Describe what happens to the potential energy of the pendulum as it swings from one side
to the other.

8. Predict what will happen to the kinetic energy at each point of the pendulums swing.

Part 2: Relationship Between Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy


9. What type of energy does the pendulum have at 45° on the right. How do the types of
energy (potential and kinetic) compare at this point?

10. What type of energy does the pendulum have when it is halfway to the bottom of
the swing? How do the types of energy compare at this point?

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11. What type of energy does the pendulum have when it is at the bottom of the swing?
How do the types of energy compare at this point?

12. What type of energy does the pendulum have when it is halfway up to the top on the
left- hand side of its swing? How do the types of energy compare at this point?

13. What type of energy does the pendulum have when it reaches its highest point on the
left- hand side of its swing? How do the types of energy compare at this point?

14. Describe what happens to the potential energy and kinetic energy throughout the swing
of the pendulum.

15. What happens to the total energy throughout the swing of the pendulum?

16. Explain how the pendulum demonstrates the concept of the conservation of energy.

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