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Pendulums and Periodic Motion

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name

Class

Date

Pendulum "A" is on Jupiter Pendulum "B" is on the Moon. The Moon has less gravity than Jupiter the pendulums have the same mass and length. Which Pendulum is moving faster?

Same

Pendulum "A" is on Jupiter Pendulum "B" is on the Moon. The Moon has less gravity than Jupiter the pendulums have the same mass and length. Which Pendulum has the greater period?

Same

Which would have the longest period?
Pendulum A: A 200-g mass attached to a 1.0-m length string
Pendulum B: A 400-g mass attached to a 0.5-m length string

Same

Your Mom wishes to make a simple pendulum that serves as a timing device. She plans to make it such that its period is 1.00 second. What length must the pendulum have?

1 m

.5 m

.25 m

More than 1 meter

A pendulum is 0.75 meters long and has a period of 4.17 seconds. The Pendulum is on an unknown planet. What is the gravity of the Unknown Planet?

9.8

3.4

1.7

Greater than 9.8

What is the period on Earth of a pendulum with a length of 2.4 m?

3.1 sec

1.9 sec

9.3 sec

5.1 sec

Batman and Robin swing from ropes attached to a large elevated platform. Suppose that they can be treated as a simple pendulum with a length of 16 m. Determine the period for one complete back and forth cycle.

16 s

4 s

8 s

6 s

True/False: The time for a complete back-and-forth swing of a pendulum is its frequency.

True

False

The time that it takes to complete one wave cycle is called the...

frequency

period

amplitude

wavelength

10.

The number of cycles that are completed per second is called the _ and is measured in _.

frequency, Hertz

wavelength, meters

amplitude, meters

period, seconds

11.

The period of an ocean wave is 10 s. What is its frequency?

10 Hz

1 Hz

0.5 Hz

0.1 Hz

12.

The value of g for Jupiter is 24.79 m/s². What is the period of a pendulum that has a length of 2.00 meters?

1.78 s

‭2.52 s

44.2 s

1.26 s

13.

A pendulum is taken to another planet where is swings back and forth exactly 10 times in 22 seconds. The pendulum's arm is 0.25 m long. What is the acceleration due to gravity (g) on this planet?

$14\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$0.20\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$49\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$0.714\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$2.04\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

14.

An olympic gymnast uses a vine to swing between two tree (she is on Earth.) It takes 2.5 seconds to swing across. How long is the vine? Hint: $L=\frac{\left(T^2\cdot g\right)}{4\pi^2}$

0.80 m

0.64 m

1.55 m

13.1 m

15.

A team of mining astronauts arrives on a very large, iron asteroid in the Kuiper Belt. They set up a standard, 1.00 meter pendulum to determine the gravitational acceleration on that body. Careful measurement determined that the period of the pendulum was 13.0 seconds. What is the value of the gravitational constant on the asteroid?

$3.04\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$0.233\frac{m}{s^2}$

$0.037\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

$0.483\ \frac{m}{s^2}$

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Pendulums and Periodic Motion

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 16mins

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