In a science museum, a 130 kg brass pendulum bob swings at the end of a 14.4 m -long wire. The pendulum is started at exactly 8:00 a. m. every morning by pulling it 1.7 m to the side and releasing it. Because of its compact shape and smooth surface, the pendulum's damping constant is only 0.010kg/s. You may want to review (Pages 405 - 407) . Part A At exactly 12:00 noon, how many oscillations will the pendulum have completed

The time in which the pendulum does a complete revolution is called the period of the pendulum.

Remember that the period of a pendulum is written as:

T = 2*pi*√(L/g)

where:

L = length of the pendulum

pi = 3.14

g = 9.8 m/s^2

Here we know that  L = 14.4m

Then the period of the pendulum will be:

T = 2*3.14*√(14.4m/9.8m/s^2) = 7.61s

So one complete oscillation takes 7.61 seconds.

We know that the pendulum starts moving at 8:00 am

We want to know 12:00 noon, which is four hours after the pendulum starts moving.

So, we want to know how many complete oscillations happen in a timelapse of 4 hours.

Each oscillation takes 7.61 seconds.

The total number of oscillations will be the quotient between the total time (4 hours) and the period.

First we need to write both of these in the same units, we know that 1 hour = 3600 seconds

then:

4 hours = 4*(3600 seconds) = 14,400 s

The total number of oscillations in that time frame is:

N = 14,400s/7.61s = 1,892.25

Rounding to the next whole number, we have:

N = 1,892

The pendulum does 1,892 oscillations between 8:00 am and 12:00 noon.

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