Description

The study of oscillatory motion of a mass hanging from a spring allows students to be introduced to the motion features of an harmonic oscillator and to be acquainted with one of the most powerful models for the physical interpretation of a wide range of phenomena.
Experiments Include:

• Hooke’s law
• Elastic oscillations
• Oscillation period of an elastic pendulum depending on the mass of the system
• Oscillation period of an elastic pendulum depending on the elasticity constant of a spring
• Study of the motion from an energetic viewpoint
• Simple pendulum
• Period’s dependence from the length
• Physical pendulum
• Period’s independence from the oscillating mass
• Relation between a physical pendulum’s period and its moment of inertia
• Torsion pendulum
• Relation between a torsion pendulum’s period and its moment of inertia
• Relation between a torsion pendulum’s period and geometrical and physical sizes which feature
• The twisted body in torsion.