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Re: [Phys-l] Separating inertial mass and g mass. Was: Re: adifferent kind of math background quiz



Thanks!

I assumed a simple p. So:


L^2 * m * theta double dot = -l(M(p)g - M(h2o) * sine (theta) - 2 * gamma * l^2 * theta dot ignored all dissipation except the linear.


M(p) is the mass of the bob and M(h20) the mass of water displaced. I have data for a bob displacing 10 gm. and not.

My solution is omega zero squared is g/l [M(p) - M(h2o)]/M(p) and omega one squared = omega zero squared - gamma^2 / M(p)^2


I haven't checked this frequency w/ my data or fitted it to: A * exp(-c1 * t) * sine (c2 * t + c3) Where c2 should equal omega1.


I think the solution of Coulomb + linear dissipation is: [exp (- c1*t)] * [1- c2 * t] quadratic dissipation is

1 / [1 + c * t] Fits (to other pendula and spring oscillators) using various combinations of these result in better RMSE or R^2 than just the linear alone. Whether this means they are valid is another question.


I've dropped this to explore the change in frequency w/ various amounts of the dissipation constant (gamma) using flat airfoils attached to the rod. (compound, above and below the suspension) I've managed to get constants ~ 0.007 and 0.07 (the exponent constant, zero and 90 deg attack angle)

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p.s. Coulomb dominates at the end of the free decay, and linear at the beginning. I'm using a Vernier rotary motion detector (optical encoder) With the best condition I obtain about a 1k average Q.









On 2010, Jan 11, , at 08:06, Moses Fayngold wrote:

Then you just replace m -----> m -- rho V, where rho is the fluid density and V - the pendulum's volume. The additional term rho V g will represent the buoyant force (assuming we can neglect the pressure gradient in view of the relatively small l). With the buoyancy term, the equation (1) can be written as

J d^2 theta / dt^2 + k(S) l^2 d theta /dt --- (m -- rho V) gl sin theta = 0 (2)

There is still at least one more term missing - that of friction force, but I could not so far figure out the expression for it; it might be considered as absorbed by k(S) were it not for the fact that it does not depend on v in this approximation.


Moses Fayngold,
NJIT