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What cause a pendulum to eventually slow down and stop swinging?
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Air resistance.
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Why does a pendulum eventually slow down and stop swinging?
The pendulum will lose energy, due to friction.
Can friction decrease motion?
Yes. If you take a pendulum and set it swinging it's friction of the pendulum against the air, and internal friction in the line that will eventually slow the pendulum down.
What factors will cause a pendulum to slow down and eventually stop?
pendulum's slow down during summers because the pendulum expands and it moves faster during winters because the pendulum contracts
Rosa's family has a grandfather clock with a pendulum The clock is not keeping time correctly because the pendulum is swinging too quickly What could Rosa do to slow down the pendulum swing?
To slow down a swinging clock pendulum, one must make it longer. In mechanical clocks, the majority of the mass of the pendulum is contained in the "bob" (a disk or weight) usually at the bottom of the pendulum. If you lower the pendulum bob, the pendulum is lengthened and the pendulum runs slower. This is usually done by turning a nut on a threaded portion of the pendulum just below the bob. Make sure the bob drops as you lower the nut or nothing will change. To raise the rate of the pendulum (make it run faster), you just turn the nut the opposite way.
Why does a pendulum swing back and forth instead of just swinging down and stopping?
because it has to keep moving until it can't move no more
Why does a pendulum eventually slow down and stop swinging?
The pendulum will lose energy, due to friction.
Can friction decrease motion?
Yes. If you take a pendulum and set it swinging it's friction of the pendulum against the air, and internal friction in the line that will eventually slow the pendulum down.
What factors will cause a pendulum to slow down and eventually stop?
pendulum's slow down during summers because the pendulum expands and it moves faster during winters because the pendulum contracts
What causes a pendulum to slow down and stop swinging?
Air resistance.
Why does a pendulum set in motion eventually stop?
Because of both air resistance and gravity that pulls the pendulum down.
Rosa's family has a grandfather clock with a pendulum The clock is not keeping time correctly because the pendulum is swinging too quickly What could Rosa do to slow down the pendulum swing?
To slow down a swinging clock pendulum, one must make it longer. In mechanical clocks, the majority of the mass of the pendulum is contained in the "bob" (a disk or weight) usually at the bottom of the pendulum. If you lower the pendulum bob, the pendulum is lengthened and the pendulum runs slower. This is usually done by turning a nut on a threaded portion of the pendulum just below the bob. Make sure the bob drops as you lower the nut or nothing will change. To raise the rate of the pendulum (make it run faster), you just turn the nut the opposite way.
Please give two examples of 'oscillation'?
A clock pendulum swinging back and forth. A weight on a spring moving up and down.
Why does a pendulum swing back and forth instead of just swinging down and stopping?
because it has to keep moving until it can't move no more
What is the name of a form of energy you can see?
kinetic energy, the energy of motion can be seen because something will be moving: a planet orbiting its star, a rock rolling down a hill, an automobile speeding down the road, a rotating top, a swinging pendulum, ...
A slow running pendulum clock can be sprreded up by?
A slow pendulum clock is sp[eeded up by decreasing the effective length of the pendulum. The weight on the pendulum is usually mounted such that it can be slid up and down the swinging arm. Sliding the weight up slightly decreases the effective length of the pendulum, and slightly increases the rate at which the clock runs. It should be done only in tiny adjustments, because the size of the change might not even be noticeable until a day or two later.
What forms of energy does a pendulum utilize?
swinging pendulum has potential energy at each end of it's travel (when it stops momentarily) This energy is converted to kinetic energy as it swings down and back to potential energy as it swings up the other way. Hope this helps you . If the pendulum is long enough it can use the relative motion of the earth's rotation to store just enough energy to maintain a continuous swing.
What is fiction how does it affect the swing of a pendulum?
A swinging pendulum follows a simple physical path that is described as simple harmonic motion. A frictionless pendulum would swing forever. Friction generates heat which radiates away energy from the system. Therefore friction will cause the pendulum to slow and stop as all the energy gets removed from the S.H.M. If you rig up a way to replace the lost energy, then the pendulum will continue to swing. This is the method used in a pendulum clock. The energy put into the wind up spring will replace the energy lost due to friction until the spring winds down. The key point is "energy is conserved" which means you cannot create or destroy it. You can only move it from one place to another or convert it into something else.
