TOPIC: Spring Mass Oscillator OBJECTIVE: To determine the spring constant (K)‚ using mass system. APPARATUS: STEEL RULE SPRING STOP WATCH TAPE MEASURE SLOTTED MASS THEORY: In classical mechanics‚ a harmonic oscillator is a system which ‚ when displaced from its equilibrium position‚ experience a restoring force‚ F‚ proportional to the displacement‚ X‚ according to Hooke’s Law; F = – KX = mα …………………………………. Where‚
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the angles of incidence and the angles of refraction. 12. Use your practical results to verify Snell’s Law. Results: *Refractive index for Perspex is 1.5. Experiment 1 n1 sinθ1 = n2 sinθ2 1 sin30° = n2 sin19.5° ∴n2 =1.497 (Refractive Index) Experiment 1 check 1.497 sin 19.5 = 1.5 sin19.5° 0.4997 ≈ 0.5 Experiment 2 n1 sinθ1 = n2 sinθ2 1 sin60° = n2 sin35°
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STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT One of the most interesting studies made in history was led by Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist and a former classmate of Stanley Milgram (who was famous for his Milgram experiment). He sought to expand on Milgram’s experiment about impacts of situational variables on human behavior by simulating a prison environment‚ in which volunteering students were randomly assigned as prisoners or prison guards. Many controversies have been elicited from this experiment‚ and it was with
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so the skeletal muscle cells are supplied with more oxygen and respiratory substrates used to generate energy in respiration where it is needed. A drug that increases heart rate is called a positive chronotrope‚ and this is demonstrated in this experiment when adrenaline is used to increase heart rate in Daphnia. One of the ways adrenaline increases heart rate is through the action of what is known as a ’second messenger ’ or ’transduction component ’‚ in this case it is a chemical made in the
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In this experiment‚ one of the big is osmosis‚ and how it had the overall impact in this excitement a little on osmosis. Osmosis takes place when two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a semi-permeable membrane in which the solvent can pass through but not the solute. In our experiment‚ we used a sucrose solution that will be a hypotonic concentration of solute. This tells us that the solution has a lower concentration of water than does the cells. Therefore‚ due to osmosis‚ the
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Stanley Milgram was an extremely famous psychologist who was best known for his groundbreaking experiment on the subject of obedience during the 1960s. Milgram began his career as a psychologist just around the time that the horrifying truth of the concentration camps came out. The fact that almost an entire nation obeyed one man‚ who commanded them to do inhumane and grotesque acts to other human beings intrigued Stanley Milgram. He became even more interested when he began watching the trial of
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Discussion: First of all‚ rinse all the apparatus that being used in the experiment with hydrochloric acid (HCL) then followed with distilled water (H₂O). Then‚ prepared the saturated calcium hydroxide (Ca (OH) ₂) solution into a filter funnel and filter paper over a second conical flask. Pour 100.00mL of saturated Ca (OH)₂ solution into a beaker and pour the solution through the filter paper by flowing the solution through a glass rod. After that‚ use a thermometer to measure the temperature of
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Change in Precipitation Ramon Pena BIO101 February 14‚ 2011 Dr. Richard Steiner Change in Precipitation Introduction This experiment will take course during a 300-year-time -period simulation. This experiment will consist of two islands‚ Darwin Island‚ Wallace Island and take only into account the bird population of these two islands. The parameter will stay the same‚ except for one variable; precipitation. I will record how the precipitation changes the beak size of the bird population
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HOOKE’S LAW EXPERIMENT Aim: The aim of this experiment is to determine the force constant (k) of the particular spring used. Introduction Hooke’s Law: Hooke’s Law is a law that shows the relationship between the forces applied to a spring and change in its length (extension). The relation is best explained by the equation: F= -k Δx F: Is force applied to the spring this can be either the strain or stress that acts upon the spring. k: Is the spring constant and details how hard
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watched the Milgram experiment during the first lecture. The result of the experiment was very shocking to me – over half of the subjects would keep shocking the ‘learners’ until the end just because the experimenters required them to do so‚ even though the learners cried desperately for help. I think this experiment has fully revealed the destructive side of authority‚ which can turn a mature and conscientious adult into a tool for punishment or even killing. The experiment reminds me of the painful
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