INTRODUCTION

A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a
pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting equilibrium position, it is subject to
a restoring force; after it reaches its highest point in its swing, gravity will
accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position. When released, the restoring
force combined with the pendulum's mass causes it to oscillate about the
equilibrium position, swinging back and forth. For small displacements, the period is
the time in which a pendulum completes a single oscillation, i.e., returns to the
position it was in at the beginning of the period. A simple pendulum is defined to
have an object that has a small mass, also known as the pendulum bob, which is
suspended from a wire or string of negligible mass, such as shown in the illustrating
figure. The Italian scientist Galileo first noted (c. 1583) the constancy of a
pendulum's period by comparing the movement of a swinging lamp in a Pisa
cathedral with his pulse rate. The Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan
Huygens invented a clock controlled by the motion of a pendulum in 1656.
Pendulums are found in timekeeping devices such as metronomes, grandfather
clocks, seismometers, and swinging incense burners, and can be used to illustrate
complex physics problems. The purposes of this experiment are: (1) to study the
motion of a simple pendulum, (2) to study simple harmonic motion, (3) to learn the
definitions of period, frequency, and amplitude, (4) to learn the relationships
between the period, frequency, amplitude and length of a simple pendulum.

REFERENCE:
Boundless. (n.d.). The Simple Pendulum. Retrieved from
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and-vibrations-15/periodic-motion-123/the-simple-pendulum-431-8324/