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16.4 Exercise 1

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An engineer builds two simple pendula. Both are suspended from small wires secured to the ceiling of a room. Each pendulum hovers 2 cm above the floor. Pendulum 1 has a bob with a mass of 10kg\text{10} \text{kg}. Pendulum 2 has a bob with a mass of 100 kg\text{100 kg}. Describe how the motion of the pendula will differ if the bobs are both displaced by 12º\text{12}º.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 16.4 The Simple Pendulum, exercise 1

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