What is your personal experience with swinging on anything like a trapeze?
The only thing I have real experience swinging on is swings, monkey bars, and I can't really think of anything else.
what applications to "real life" do swinging objects have?
Metronome, grandfather clocks, swings
what is your prediction about what will happen if two people are on one trapeze and only one is on the other and the one switches to the other?
I have two ideas about what will happen. I think that maybe when the one person switches to the other trapeze the now two person trapeze will slow down because of the added weight that is vertical of the swinging bar. Another option is that the added mass will add to the speed of the now two person trapeze and make it go faster and higher.
what understanding or ideas do you have about the science of back and forth swinging?
that the more mass pushing down on the object like a swing will produce a faster higher swing?
Predictions for Pendulum Experiment
I think that with less weight, which means less washers, the pendulum will move faster. The more the weight, the slower it would move.
Own Experiment: Changing the length of the string will result in less full swings. We still did four trials four each length.
20 cm and 4 washers- Average: 10.625 swings
25 cm and 4 washers- Average: 10 swings
We found out that the weight of the washers has no affect on how many full swings the pendulum has. What causes the change is the length of the string.
Quiz Question:
the swinging experience would be awkward. string length affects the amount of swings and if the strings are two different lengths the swing itself won't move forward and backwards. it would swing awkwardly and wobbly.
