Applying A Pendulum Ride For Northwood High School

The unit question asks whether or not the hero of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” would realistically be able to escape the descending blade swinging on a pendulum. The question is a matter of time, is it feasible for the protagonist to escape the pendulum with the allotted amount of time. Based on standard deviation and testing a pendulum of the same scale as the one mentioned in the story, the answer is no. The protagonist mentions that he believed 10-12 periods of the pendulum would result in the blade coming in contact with his torso. Using the formula developed in class for the period of a pendulum, it would take the 30 foot pendulum described in the story about 72 seconds to complete 12 periods. Testing the actual 30 foot yielded similar results within 1-2 seconds of 72 seconds. Therefore, it is fair to say that the hero is working with 72 seconds to free himself. This does not seem like enough time to develop an escape strategy, act on the strategy, and leave without getting hit bit the pendulum. The method the hero describes involves thinking about the situation and then employing the help of nearby rats. He also mentions, “Yet one minute, and I felt that the struggle would be over,” as if to imply he had 1 minute to spare. Since he was reflecting and then enticing the rats to gnaw through the rope it is not likely that it took only 12 seconds to escape. 72 seconds does not seem like enough time for the hero to complete his escape. However, the thickness of the rope and speed of the rats are factors that could affect the outcome.

The pendulum was pulled to about 15 cm from the motion detector. In case of the mass on a spring, the mass was pulled till just a few inches away from the motion detector.

Enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts alike are well aware that roller coasters malfunction from time to time. Unfortunately for the reputation of these thrill rides, many media, news and other sources exaggerate these circumstances to no end. An example of this is in a video titled “Girls seat belt fails on oblivion rollercoaster at Alton Towers”. What happened was the extra seatbelt somehow came undone. The thing is, the seatbelt doesn’t even do anything. It’s just there as a backup, and the restraint that is on the roller coaster in the video has never failed and it’s on hundreds of coasters around the world.

Roller coasters are driven almost entirely by inertial, gravitational and centripetal forces. Amusement parks keep building faster and more complex roller coasters, but the fundamental principles at work remain the same.

In this story, Edgar Allan Poe (such as in many of his works) uses the setting to create a dark image inside our minds. He makes this specially through darkness, therefore the character makes a connection with death. “The physical setting oppresses him in the visions of his graveyard” (1).

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The roller coaster has its beginnings in Russia where during the 1600's. People crafted sleds out of wood and built hills made of ice blocks. The hills had sand at the bottom to help slow down the sleds so they would not crash when they reached the bottom of the hill.1 Over time, the roller coaster has become more complex. They now are taller, faster

In our graph of the average times it took the marbles to go down the roller coaster, it is shown that there is an optimal or best amount of mass for the marble to be in order to have the fastest time. Marble four, or the second largest marble, had the fastest average time. As the mass of the marbles increased, their time increased as well, making marble five slower than marble four because its mass was greater than the optimum mass. Marble one, two, and three were also slower than marble four because its mass was less than the optimum mass.

Our objective in this science project was to make a pendulum ride for Northwood High School that could be securely utilized by students. We needed to make a ride, "with a time of precisely 1.5 seconds, which will give a ride that is not too quick, not too slow, but just right" (Northwood Land Article 1). The ride couldn 't be higher than 75 cm, it couldn 't make an angle more prominent than 45 degrees, and distinctive quantities of individuals could be on the ride at once so we should have been ready to have diverse weights that still support with the well being capabilities. Our three hypotheses for this undertaking were that expanding the quantity of individuals will make the ride go slower, expanding the edge will build the period time, and ultimately, an expanded string length will expand the period time. With a specific end goal to test our speculation and achieve the 1.5 period time, we needed to figure out how to test every variable. We chose to consolidate the components of weight, angle, and string length to discover which mix of the three would make a period time of 1.5 seconds while in the meantime, attempt to demonstrate or refute our hypothesis. Altogether, we needed to make three information tables.

Roller Coasters were first built in January of 1885, since then thousands of people have traveled to amusement park in order to ride these rides. When they were first invented they were made out of wood and did not have many turns or tricks. Through the years they have evolved into metal with many turns, loops, and heights. With the added on thrills, there are many dangers, deaths, and accidents that come along with riding roller coasters.

In this lab, a roller coaster was constructed using 3 - 1.83 meter foam tubes as a track (totaling in 5.49 meters), one marble (any type), masking tape, a stopwatch and a meter stick. In the roller coaster track, there had to be one initial

A pendulum is a bob suspended by a string from a fixed point and behaves in an oscillating manner. When released from an angle away from its equilibrium, it swings side-to-side in a periodic motion. The time it takes to complete one full swing is considered the period and the purpose of this investigation is to discover the effect of the string length on the period of the pendulum. This will be accomplished by recording and analyzing data with the use of data tables and graphs.

Individuals love to go to the amusement parks and try out the rides that are available. The most common and thrilling ride is the roller coaster. An amusement park is not an amusement park if it does not contain a roller coaster. What makes these roller coasters so fun that every amuse parks has one. A lot of people would say it is their extreme high speeds that makes it very exciting. That is a valid answer, but it is the wrong answer. The speed has nothing to do with the excitement. It is more than likely that most people travel faster on their ride along the highway on the way to the amusement park than they would in a roller coaster. Basically the thrill all comes from the acceleration and the feeling of weightlessness that they

A simple pendulum consists of a mass that is attached to a string of length ‘L’ that is fixed to a point, in this case, a cork suspended by a clamp stand. This allows the mass to be suspended vertically downwards and allows it to be displayed at an angle that it swings. A period ‘T’ of oscillation is the time required for one complete swing. For this to happen ideally its mass must swing from an angle that is

The group of Kayla Morabito, Garrett Lewis, Rebecca Oviedo and Zach Prow were tasked with measuring the PLM building on Main Campus at Wake tech. The first step was to find the building then measure perpendicularly out thirty feet using a string and measuring tape. Starting from the ground, at zero feet, one group member held the protracted while the other looked at the angle created by the top of the building. The group members would rotate places to double check the angle measure to ensure accuracy. The same process would occur at two and four feet off the ground all still at thirty feet away; now a group member would have to hold the tape measure tightly with tension. The purpose is to find the angle measure created by the