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Author(s) David Halliday

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ISBN 9781118230718

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A pendulum is formed by pivoting a long thin rod about a point on the rod. In a series of experiments, the period is measured as a function of the distance x between the pivot point and the rod’s center.
If the rod’s length is L=2.20 m and its mass is m=22.1 g, what is the minimum period?
If x is chosen to minimize the period and then L is increased, does the period increase, decrease, or remain the same?
If, instead, m is increased without L increasing, does the period increase, decrease, or remain the same?

The minimum value of a period, $T_{\min} = 22.6 s$ .
The value of period will increase with the value of length.
There will no effect of change in the value of mass on the value of period so it will remain same

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Step 1: Identification of given data

The mass of the rod is, $m = 22.1 g = 0.0221 kg$
The length of the rod is, $L = 2.20 m$

Step 2: Understanding the concept

The problem deals with the calculation of moment of inertia. It is the quantity expressed by the body resisting angular acceleration which is the sum of the product of the mass of every particle with its square of a distance from the axis of rotation. Using the equation for moment of inertia of rod about its center and the parallel axis theorem, we can calculate the moment of inertia of the rod about the pivot point.

Formulae:

$T = 2 π \sqrt{\frac{I}{mgx}} I_{c} = \frac{{mL}^{2}}{12} I = \frac{{mL}^{2}}{12} + {mx}^{2}$

Where T is time, m is mass L is the length, I is the rotational inertia, and $I_{c}$ is the rotational inertia about the center

Step 3: (a) Determining the minimum period if the rod’s length is L=2.20 m and its mass is m=22.1 g

The equation for rotational inertia of a rod about its center is

$I_{c} = \frac{{mL}^{2}}{12}$

Now, according to the parallel axis theorem, the rotational inertia of a rod about a point distance ‘d’ from its center is

$I = I_{c} + {mx}^{2}$

So,

$I = \frac{{mL}^{2}}{12} + {mx}^{2}$

Now, the equation for period of the pendulum is

$T = 2 π \sqrt{\frac{I}{mgx}}$

By substituting the equation for moment of inertia in this equation, we get

$T = 2 π \sqrt{\frac{\frac{{mL}^{2}}{12} + {mx}^{2}}{mgx}}$

Now, to get the minimum period, we differentiate this equation with respect to x

So,

$\frac{d T}{d x} = 0$

By solving this equation, we get

$x = \frac{L}{\sqrt{12}}$

Now, substituting this equation, we can get T_min as,

$\begin{array}{rcl} T_{\min} & = & 2 π \sqrt{\frac{\frac{{mL}^{2}}{12} + m {(\frac{L}{\sqrt{12}})}^{2}}{mg (\frac{L}{\sqrt{12}})}} \\ = & 2 π \sqrt{\frac{2 L}{\sqrt{12} g}} \\ = & 2 π \sqrt{\frac{2 \times 2.20 m}{\sqrt{12} \times 9.8 m / s^{2}}} \\ = & 2.26 s \end{array}$

Step 4: (b) Find out if when x is chosen to minimize the period and then L is increased, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

We have derived the equation for minimum period as

$T_{\min} = 2 π \sqrt{\frac{2 L}{\sqrt{12} g}}$

As, the term L is in the numerator, the period will increase with increase in length of pendulum.

Step 5: (c) Find out if m is increased without L increasing, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

The equation for minimum period is

$T_{\min} = 2 π \sqrt{\frac{2 L}{\sqrt{12} g}}$

From this equation, we can conclude that there is no effect of mass on the period as there is no mass term in this equation so that the period will remain same

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Step 1: Identification of given data

Step 2: Understanding the concept

Step 3: (a) Determining the minimum period if the rod’s length is L=2.20 m and its mass is m=22.1 g

Step 4: (b) Find out if when x is chosen to minimize the period and then L is increased, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

Step 5: (c) Find out if m is increased without L increasing, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

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Step 1: Identification of given data

Step 2: Understanding the concept

Step 3: (a) Determining the minimum period if the rod’s length is L=2.20 m and its mass is m=22.1 g

Step 4: (b) Find out if when x is chosen to minimize the period and then L is increased, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

Step 5: (c) Find out if m is increased without L increasing, the period increases, decreases, or remains the same

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