Adia Sisson

IB Physics: Relationship Between Period and Amplitude for Large-Angle Pendulums

In my second year of IB Physics, were given an open assignment of designing our own lab to answer a research question of our creation in a field of our choosing, extending beyond the simple experiments we performed in class. I chose to study simple pendulums whose angles extended beyond the small-angle approximation assumed in the standard model. My experiment examined the relationship between time period and amplitude of these large-angle pendulums.