DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ALL Sections must be completed using Block Capitals or typed CODE AND TITLE OF COURSEWORK Course code: MECH1008 Title: OSCILLATION OF A TORSIONAL PENDULUM STUDENT NAME: CHEW KOK HAO‚ DANIEL DEGREE AND YEAR: MENG IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAB GROUP: 1 DATE OF LAB. SESSION: 03 OCT 2011 DATE COURSEWORK DUE FOR SUBMISSION: 10 OCT 2011 ACTUAL DATE OF SUBMISSION: 09 OCT 2011 LECTURERS NAME: Dr. PAUL FROMME PERSONAL TUTORS NAME: Dr. A R GREIG
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9.2 T1P: Pendulum Practical Report Aim: To determine the value of gravitation acceleration using the motion of a pendulum. Identify the causes in variation of this value. Equipment: * Slotted Weight * Retort Stand * Sticky Tape * Clamp * String * 1 metre ruler * Timer Method: * 1. Gather required equipment. * 2. Place retort stand onto table and tightly secure the clamp * 3. Tie the slotted weight onto one end of the string‚ and wrap the other end
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Experimental Errors and Uncertainty No physical quantity can be measured with perfect certainty; there are always errors in any measurement. This means that if we measure some quantity and‚ then‚ repeat the measurement‚ we will almost certainly measure a different value the second time. How‚ then‚ can we know the “true” value of a physical quantity? The short answer is that we can’t. However‚ as we take greater care in our measurements and apply ever more refined experimental methods‚ we can reduce
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the simple pendulum 2.0 Objectives The purpose of the experiment is to investigate the time taken on the greatest possible precision of period of simple pendulum and the value of g‚ acceleration due to gravity and two different periods of both big and small simple pendulum’s oscillations. 3.0 Summary of Result The results of the experiment have proven the acceleration due to gravity and the precision of period of simple pendulum. Besides that‚ the length of the pendulum did influence
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Pendulum From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Pendulum (disambiguation). "Simple gravity pendulum" model assumes no friction or air resistance. A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.[1] When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting equilibrium position‚ it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position. When released‚ the restoring force combined with the pendulum’s mass
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Design of an LQG controller for two inverted pendulums Objective: The objective of this paper is to design linear quadratic controllers for a system with two inverted pendulums on 2-d Plane. To this goal‚ it has to be determined which control strategy delivers better performance with respect to pendulum’s angle and the cart’s position. The inverted pendulums represents a challenging control problem‚ since it continually moves toward
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The Inverted Pendulum is inherently unstable‚ higher order multi-variable and highly coupled system which can be treated as typical non-linear control problem. [1] This is the benchmark for designing‚ testing‚ evaluating and comparing of different classical and contemporary control methods. The control of IP has been a research interest in the field of control engineering because it is the most difficult system being an inherently unstable and highly nonlinear. So this system became a choice of dynamic
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ERRORS IN MEASUREMENT Errors in Measurement Structure 2.1 Introduction Objectives 2.2 Classification of Errors 2.2.1 Gross Errors 2.2.2 Systematic Errors 2.2.3 Random Errors 2.3 Accuracy and Precision 2.4 Calibration of the Instrument 2.5 Analysis of the Errors 2.5.1 Error Analysis on Common Sense Basis 2.5.2 Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data 2.6 Summary 2.7 Key Words 2.8 Answers to SAQs 2.1 INTRODUCTION The
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Introduction: The study of the ballistic pendulum began with Benjamin Robins in the early 1700 ’s. Robins was an English mathematician and writer on ballistics‚ and used this testing apparatus for the evaluation of the strength of gunpowder and the measurement of air resistance (Calvert‚ 2006). At the time of the American Revolution a loyalist named Benjamin Thompson also utilized and expanded the use to the ballistic pendulum. He further evaluated the efficiency of gunpowder. He fired from
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Using a Pendulum to Determine g Aim: To determine the rate of acceleration due to gravity using the motion of a pendulum. Hypothesis: The numerical g value measured on earth is estimated to be 9.8 ms-2 Apparatus: * Retort Stand * Boss head and clamp * Approximately 1 metre of string * 50g mass carrier or pendulum bob * Stopwatch * Metre ruler Theory: When a simple pendulum swings with a small angle‚ the mass on the end performs a good approximation of the back-and-forth
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