Spring Constant and Time Period

[Peter G.]

Hi,

I am investigating the effect of changing the spring constant on the time period of Simple Harmonic Oscillations.

My first doubt regards one of my control variables. I listed that I should try and maintain air humidity constant, due to the fact it affects air resistance and, therefore damping. Obviously, I don't have absolute control over the humidity in the air but how could I try to maintain it constant? Maintaining the relative humidity the same

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter G.

 

[Redbelly98]

Not that you would actually do this in an introductory physics lab, but probably the easiest way to control the humidity is to keep it at or close to either 0% or 100%; maintaining it somewhere in between would be very tricky. See if you can think of ways that holding it at either 0 or 100% might be done.