Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (3rd Edition)

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Chapter 14 - Oscillations - Exercises and Problems - Page 406: 78

Answer

$\approx 1.00002$

Work Step by Step

a) We know that the angular frequency for a physical pendulum is given by $$\omega=2\pi f=\sqrt{\dfrac{Mgl}{I}}$$ where we know that $f=1/T$, so $$ \dfrac{2\pi }{T}=\sqrt{\dfrac{Mgl}{I}}$$ Hence, the period of a physical pendulum is given by $$ T =2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{I}{Mgl}}$$ where in our case, $l=L$, as shown in the figure below. $$ T =2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{I}{MgL}}\tag 1$$ So we have to find the moment of inertia of our system and we are going to use the parallel axis theorem. $$I=I_{\rm cm,sphere}+Md^2$$ where $D=L$, and $I_{\rm cm,sphere}=\frac{2}{5}MR^2$ $$I=\frac{2}{5}MR^2+ML^2$$ Plugging into (1); $$ T =2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{\frac{2}{5}\color{red}{\bf\not} MR^2+\color{red}{\bf\not} ML^2}{\color{red}{\bf\not} MgL}} $$ $$ \boxed{T =2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{\frac{2}{5} R^2+ L^2}{ gL}}}$$ --- b) We need to find the ratio of $T_{\rm real}/T_{\rm simple}$ where the real one is on the boxed equation above and the simple is $T=2\pi \sqrt{L/g}$ $$\dfrac{T_{\rm real}}{T_{\rm simple}}=\dfrac{\color{red}{\bf\not} 2\color{red}{\bf\not} \pi \sqrt{\dfrac{\frac{2}{5} R^2+ L^2}{ gL}}}{\color{red}{\bf\not} 2\color{red}{\bf\not} \pi \sqrt{\dfrac{L}{g}}}$$ $$\dfrac{T_{\rm real}}{T_{\rm simple}}= \sqrt{\dfrac{\frac{2}{5} R^2+ L^2}{ \color{red}{\bf\not} gL}\times \dfrac{\color{red}{\bf\not} g}{L}}$$ $$\dfrac{T_{\rm real}}{T_{\rm simple}}= \sqrt{\dfrac{\frac{2}{5} R^2+ L^2}{ L^2} }$$ $$\dfrac{T_{\rm real}}{T_{\rm simple}}= \dfrac{\sqrt{\frac{2}{5} R^2+ L^2}}{ L } $$ Plugging the known; $$\dfrac{T_{\rm real}}{T_{\rm simple}}= \dfrac{\sqrt{\frac{2}{5} (1\times 10^{-2})^2+ (1)^2}}{ 1 } =\color{red}{\bf 1.0002} $$ This means that the simple pendulum approximation is fair enough in many cases.
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