Hi! I have some questions I'd like to discuss regarding an experiment with the pendulum

I will have a laboratory class in which I will have to measure the period of oscillation of the swinging pendulum using an electronic stopwatch.

what method could I use to obtain the period of a physical pendulum using a stopwatch, taking care to minimise any uncertainties?

Can you help me to go through this questions?

Should you start the stopwatch at the same time as you set the pendulum swinging, or would it be better to start the pendulum swinging and begin timing later?

Will you measure the time for just one “to-and-fro” swing (i.e. one period), or the time for multiple swings and then divide the time by the number of swings to get the period?

How many measurements will you make at a particular pendulum length? Would it be better to take the average of several measurements?

What angle will you be using? Why?

What is the uncertainty in the length of the pendulum? Is it limited by the precision

of your equipment or something else?

What is the minimum length that you will be using? Why?

Derive The Dirac Equation.

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Determine its age assuming that in living trees the ratio of ¹⁴C/¹²C atoms is about 1.3

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(a) What is its weight?

(b) What is the buoyant force acting on it?

(c) What is the size and the direction of the net force on it?

size

direction

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(a) If the antelope runs away from the lens at a speed of 4.10 m/s, how fast does the image move? mm/s

Three charges are placed on the y-axis. The first, with charge 8nC, sits at y=5cm. The second, with charge -14nC, is at y=0cm. The third, -10nC, is at y=−5cm.

a) What is the electric potential on the x-axis at x=10cm?

b) What is the magnitude of the electric field at x=10cm?

c) What is the electric potential at x= −10cm?

d) What is the magnitude of the electric field at x= −10cm?

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Please show all work! thanks!

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 Determine: (1) speed of propagation of a transverse wave in this string, (2) frequency of the fourth harmonic (of a transverse standing wave on this string), and (3) wavelength of the fourth harmonic.

Sketch the fourth harmonic normal mode.

 How many nodes (N) and antinodes (A) are in the fourth harmonic? Label them above.

 If incident wave has the amplitude of 5.5 cm, what is the amplitude of the standing wave?

 If the reflected wave has a vertical displacement of +2.3 cm (at some time instant) at the left end of the string, what is the vertical displacement (at the same time instant) of the incident wave at the same end of the string?

A machine part has the shape of a solid uniform sphere of mass 220 g and diameter 2.90 cm . It is spinning about a frictionless axle through its center, but at one point on its equator it is scraping against metal, resulting in a friction force of 0.0200 N at that point.

Part A

Find its angular acceleration. Let the direction the sphere is spinning be the positive sense of rotation.

Part B

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