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Phy 231

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A simple pendulum has length 2 meters. It is pulled back 10 cm from its equilibrium position and released. The tension in the string is 5 Newtons.

• Sketch the system with the pendulum mass at the origin and the x axis horizontal.

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• Sketch a vector representing the direction of the pendulum string at this instant. As measured from a horizontal x axis, what is the direction of this vector? (Hint: The y component of this vector is practically the same as the length; you are given distance of the pullback in the x direction. So you know the x and y components of the vector.)

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x = 0.1 m

0.1m^2 + y^2 = 2m^2

y = 1.99 m

tan-1(0.1 m / 1.99 m) = 2.88 + 90 degrees

92.88 degrees

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• What is the direction of the tension force exerted on the mass?

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92.88 degrees

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• What therefore are the horizontal and vertical components of the tension?

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x = 5 N * cos(92.88)

x = 0.25 N

y = 5 N * sin(92.88)

y = 4.99 N

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• What therefore is the weight of the pendulum, and what it its mass?

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w = 5 N

the weight would be equal and opposite to the y component you found above; it round to 5 N but you correctly expressed it above to 3 significant figures as 4.99 N

m = w/g

m = 5 N / 9.8 m/s/s

m = 0.51 kg

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• What is its acceleration at this instant?

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a = 0.25 N / 0.51 kg

a = 0.49 m/s/s

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