Oscillations

[ness9660]

A meter stick, suspended at one end by a 0.502m long light string, is set into oscillation. Determine the period of oscillation in seconds.

At first I thought this would be a rather simple problem, so I did T=2pi*sqrt(L/g) but apparently this is very wrong.
Then I tried w=sqrt(g/l) T=(2pi)/w but this seems to be wrong as well.

But I can see no other way to do this problem using just the length and g.

Can anyone offer any insight into solving this problem?

Thanks for any help.

[dextercioby]

This is a physical pendulum.U should be given the masses of the string & the meter stick,too.Something is either fishy,or is something i just don't see.

Daniel.

[ness9660]

This is a physical pendulum.U should be given the masses of the string & the meter stick,too.Something is either fishy,or is something i just don't see.

Daniel.


My instructor said the problem is solvable, but yeah, all we get is the length of the string and g.

[Delta]

but apparently this is very wrong.

In what way?

[jdavel]

ness,

Do you think your instructor was picturing the string and the meter stick being in line with each other. If so, I think you can solve this.