Objective: * To find the flying pigs' (period,frequency,Rotational Velocity,Linear Velocity, Centripetal acceleration, Centripetal force) with our own equipment available to us.
Procedure: · To find the frequency of the flying pig, we used the stopwatch on one of our phones to see how many circles the pig makes in a second. · To find the time we plugged in the number we got for frequency(2) into the equation (T=1/f) · To find the Rotational Velocity we plugged in the numbers for the frequency into the equation (W=2 πf) · To find the radius one person got on top of the table and caught the pig as it was going around, and turned it off. Then with another person’s help, a right triangle was crated and we measured the radius in cm from the center to the pig. · Then we converted the (cm) to (m) by dividing by 100. · To find the Linear Velocity we plugged in the variables we already found into the equation (V=Wr) · To find the Centripetal acceleration we plugged in the variables into the equation ( ac=(v)^2/(r) ) · To find the Centripetal force we needed to find the mass of the pig first. · We weighed the pig in grams, so then we need to convert is into kg, by dividing by 1000. · Then we plugged the variables into the equation ( Fc= (m)(v)^2/(r) )