Pendulum Experiment Diagram. Then suspend your pendulum over the edge of the table so that the length of the pendulum is about 2 feet. Now pull the weight back about a foot and let your pendulum start swinging.
In this experiment in order to find g first we need to determine the equivalent length. Diagram illustrating the restoring force for a simple pendulum. The aim of the experiment was to determine the effects of two factors the length of a pendulum and the hanging mass of a pendulum on the period of oscillation of the simple pendulum and to determine the value of g the acceleration due to gravity.
This lapse of time is the period t at the point of maximum amplitude as long as the pendulum keeps covering the beam while it reverses its trajectory.
The forces on the upper pendulum mass are the tension in the upper rod t 1 the tension in the lower rod t 2 and gravity m 1 g. T 1 2π 063s. The components of the gravitational force are also shown. L represents the length of the rope in meters and g represents the acceleration due to gravity.