But in terms of dropping balls from a tower it doesn't seem intuitively correct, and surely there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another:
"For example, by my logic dropping two balls from a tower where one mass is greater than the other, the smaller mass should be more affected...
How does the mass of a pendulum bob affect the time taken for the oscillation of a pendulum to diminish?
At first I instinctively thought that it would have no effect. However, thinking about the pendulum bob's momentum as it interacts with the air molecules, a higher massed pendulum should...
Basically I have an experiment which involves attaching circular discs of varying radius to a pendulum, monitoring how its amplitude varies with time.
In my write up I need to include an explanation of how air resistance causes a damped oscillation over time. So far I have written:
Air...
1. The problem
Okay. So just too briefly outline my experiment: I have a pendulum bob attached to two cardboard discs, and am testing to see how the radius of the cardboard discs effects the damping of the simple harmonic oscillator (the pendulum).
I have results (such as the one below which...