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The document outlines a lab activity on Simple Harmonic Motion using the PhET 'Masses & Springs' simulation. It includes experiments to observe how mass and spring stretchiness affect the motion, period, and energy of a spring-mass system. The document also prompts students to analyze graphs of height, velocity, and acceleration over time to draw conclusions about harmonic motion.

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Kami Export - Spring Pendulum Lab Phet

The document outlines a lab activity on Simple Harmonic Motion using the PhET 'Masses & Springs' simulation. It includes experiments to observe how mass and spring stretchiness affect the motion, period, and energy of a spring-mass system. The document also prompts students to analyze graphs of height, velocity, and acceleration over time to draw conclusions about harmonic motion.

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Simple Harmonic Motion Blake Yarborough

Name: ____________________

Google "PhET simulations" and then run the "Masses & Springs" simulation.
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/mass-spring-lab/mass-spring-lab_en.html
1. Determine how changing the mass on the spring changes the motion of the spring
when hung from equilibrium on Spring 3.

Mass Max displacement Period Frequency

50 g 1.6
0.15 1
100 g 1.6
0.25 0.6

2. Next determine, with a constant mass of 50 g, how changing the "stretchiness" of the
spring affects the period of the spring/mass system when hung from equilibrium.

Stretchiness Max displacement Period Frequency

Soft 0.4 2.6


0.4
Medium 0.25 0.6 1.6

Hard 0.8 1.3


0.15
3. How does the amount of mass affect the period of the spring?
greater
_____________ mass, longer period.
lower
_____________ mass, shorter period.
4. How does the stretchiness of the spring affect the period of the spring?
stretchier
_____________ spring, longer period.
_____________
less stretchy spring, shorter period.
5. If you hang a mass on the spring and then pull the spring down further past the max
displacement, how does the spring react? Does it move more quickly or more slowly?
less
______________ more
mass, more speed; ____________ mass, less speed.
6.How did this effect the period?
if speed is greater, period becomes shorter, and vise versa- when speed is less the period is greater

7. Select the box that will show the energy of spring #3. Observe what the graph looks
like for the spring with medium stretchiness and the 50 g weight when hung from the
equilibrium point.
a.) When is KE the greatest? The least?
The KE is greatetst in the middle and lowest at the begining or end
b.). When is PE (combination ot PEgrav and PEelas) the greatest? The least?
Its greatest at the top and lowest at the bottom
Simple Harmonic Motion Name: ____________________

8.) For this same set up, draw a graph of height of the mass over time.

9.) How can you find the amplitude and period from this graph?

Measure from middle to maximum


10) Use what you know about slopes to draw a graph of velocity and acceleration over
time (do not worry about the scaling of the y axis, but keep the same scaling on the x axis
from the previous graph))

11. What would the amplitudes of the velocity and acceleration graphs represent?

12.) Note where the peaks of the different graphs are in relation to one another over time.
What conclusions can you make about the system based on this comparison?

The Pendulum – Introduction to Harmonic Motion PhET Lab

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