Question

In the experiment, you will study an oscillator called a "torsion pendulum." In this case, the restoring "force" is the torsion constant of the wire that suspends the weight X and the inertial term is the rotational inertia of the suspended mass. You will compare the periods of a suspended sphere and of a suspended cube. The rotational inertia of a sphere is Is the cube and S is the length of its side. If the cube and the sphere are suspended from the same wire, what is the expected ratio of their periods, Tc/Ts? Assume that D = S, ms 0.20kg, and me 1.1 kg. ion mcS-, where me is the mass of 10

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