Valeriya Kolegova
Coney Island
Physics Reflection Project
In our science class, lessons every day is so interesting for me. We did a lot experiments, which
really interesting. I learned about amplitude and time of pendulum, and how to measure time of
pendulum. We know what is sound, what happens when you lose your voice, about airplanes,
about newtons laws of motion. We watched a lot interesting physics videos.
One thing that I like more than others its time of pendulum. we made a rockets in our class and
then measured which rocket will fly further
Does amplitude affect the period of a pendulum?
From
[a]
my Lab project I understood that the pendulum which has a big amplitude takes more
time.
We did some steps for measure the period of pendulum. We used timer, protractor, ruler, and
short and long pendulum, with the same weight.
Procedure:
1) I took a timer
2) Diana held a pendulum with protractor
3) Diana choose degrees
4) Diana released a pendulum and at this time I pressed start on my timer and we did 3 turnover
5) When third turnover was done, at this moment I pressed stop
6) I collected the datas and time in ( data table) -degrees
sec-seconds
amplitude | period My conclusion is, when we measured time of pendulum, I
90* | 3.40sec understood that with great angle we got short
time,because
50* | 3.69sec of the big amplitude.
20* | 3.41sec
80* | 4.47sec
60* | 3.62sec
40* | 3.53sec
30* | 3.53sec
10* | 3.47sec
Does mass affect the period of a pendulum?
When the pendulum id light it takes more time. Also we can change time when we use
different length of pendulum.
Procedure which we used:
1) Take a pendulum with light mass
2) Take a protractor
3) Take a timer
4) Measure the period on timer and degrees on protractor
5) Push start on timer, when your partner will start
6) Press stop, when it comes back after 3 amplitudes
7) Use some trials with different degrees
8) Collect the datas in (data table)
amplitude | time amplitude | time
80 | 4.07sec 80 | 2.47sec
60 | 3.81sec 60 | 2.06sec
40 | 3.56sec 40 | 1.93sec
20 | 3.66sec 20 | 1.72sec
LONG LENGTH SHORT LENGTH
My conclusion is, that long length took more time than short length. I think, because long
length took big amplitude because of the long length. So, when we have short length we got a
short time, because it has not big amplitude. Different length changed the time.
2) One thing i learned is sound.
Sound
Sound is a wave that results from the vibration of particles in a medium (such as air or
water). Sound can be mechanical, knock, braking sound, natural, musical, and others. Sound is
transmitted by molecules (atoms or particles) in a solid, liquid, or gas colliding with each other.
The velocity of sound in the gas is less than the liquids, and the speed of sound in liquid and in
gas is less than in solids.
Vibrations in air are called travelling longitudinal waves, which we can hear. Sound can
travel through the wall and water. I can make a sound by the musical instruments, or shake
something, or to break something. Each particle interacting and causing a disturbance of its
nearest neighbors. Since a sound wave is a disturbance that is transported through a medium
via the mechanism of particle-to-particle interaction, a sound wave is characterized as a
mechanical wave. As a rule sound moving by the air, it could be any material such as water or
steel. The medium is simply a series of interconnected and interacting particles.
The sound wave is transported from one location to another by particle-to-particle interaction.
3)One thing what i learned is What happens when you lose your voice?
We speaking by our vocal cords and vocal cords sets off and vibrations make a sound our
voice.
When our vocal cords are sick or inflamed or something else, our voice become raspy and
hoarse. If we have disease or just inflame vocal cords , we can lose our voice. Sound is created
when something compresses the air and the region of compression moves away from the
source to someone's ears.
