Week 4, Centripetal Forces

This lab has students rotating a mass in circular motion, with the centripetal force and angular velocity simultaneously recorded by a handheld data logger. The students plot Fc vs. mω2r in Logger Pro and check if a linear fit with a unity slope is consistent with the data by counting the data points that don't fit on the line when error bars are included.


Created Spring 2012 by Peter Beyersdorf