Pendulums Swing!

Pendulum sites:

http://muse.tau.ac.il/museum/galileo/pendulum.html

http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/experiment95/galileo_pendulum.html

http://www.curriculumunits.com/galileo/science/pendulum.htm

Galileo’s conclusions…

 a) pendulums nearly return to their release heights

 b) all pendulums eventually come to rest with lighter ones coming to rest faster

 c) the period is independent of the bob weight

 d) the period is independent of the amplitude

 e) the square of the period varies directly with the length

T = 2 π √ (L/g)