Abstract
An inexpensive driven physical pendulum is described for classroom demonstrations, which clearly shows free and forced oscillations, as well as the transient process leading to the steady-state regime of forced oscillations. An advantage of this pendulum is that it is possible to control the decay constant by the use of magnetic braking. A data-acquisition system1 collects the data and displays the oscillations on a computer screen.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 244-246 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Physics Teacher |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2005 |
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Publisher Copyright:© 2005 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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