Essential University Physics, Volume 1 and Volume 2 - With Access
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Chapter 13, Problem 55P
A pendulum consists of a 320-g solid ball 15.0 cm in diameter, suspended by an essentially massless string 80.0 cm long. Calculate the period of this pendulum, treating it first as a simple pendulum and then as a physical pendulum. What’s the error in the simple-pendulum approximation? (Hint: Remember the parallel-axis theorem.)
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