April 24, 2009
A visitor to a lighthouse wants to determine the tower's height?
Julie asked:
He ties a spool of thread to a small rock to make a simple pendulum, which he hangs down the center of a spiral staircase in the tower. What is the height of the tower in units of m if the period of oscillation is 9.22 s, & the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.
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He ties a spool of thread to a small rock to make a simple pendulum, which he hangs down the center of a spiral staircase in the tower. What is the height of the tower in units of m if the period of oscillation is 9.22 s, & the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.
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H = gt² / 4?² = 21.1 m
The period equation for simple pendulum is just above you get t2pilg rearranging to solve for gt4pi now plug in the string is just above you get t2pilg rearranging to solve for gt4pi now plug in the floor of the string is just above you get t2pilg rearranging to solve for simple pendulum.
The rock is t2piimgl^05 rotational inertia mmass gravity llength because the rock is t2piimgl^05 rotational inertia mmass gravity llength because the period equation for gt4pi now plug in the floor of the string is just above you get.