Modeling the Motion of the Pendulum

A Note to Students

A Note to Teachers

Modeling the Factors Affecting the Period of a Pendulum

This module introduces physics students to techniques of computational modeling using the periodic motion of a pendulum. Beginning with hands-on inquiry-based laboratories, students are led through spreadsheet modeling activities to a STELLA model for the period of a pendulum.

Developed by

ALABAMA TEAM #2

This project is supported, in part,
by the

National Science Foundation

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