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Viscous Fluid In A Horizontally Rotating Cylinder, Kolter Bradshaw, Zach Van Engen
Viscous Fluid In A Horizontally Rotating Cylinder, Kolter Bradshaw, Zach Van Engen
Student Work
If you race a hoop and a disk of equal mass and radius by rolling them down a ramp, the disk will reach the bottom first due to the difference in how the mass is distributed. For rolling solid objects, this phenomenon is straightforward to model. However, if you roll a hollow cylinder filled with fluid, the situation is more complex due to the way fluid properties, such as viscosity, effect rotation. We are analyzing the motion of fluids and beads in a cylinder in order to observe viscosity effects on the fluid-cylinder system. By examining a rolling fluid-cylinder system …
Systematic Errors In Intro Lab Video Analysis, John Zwart, Kayt E. Frisch, Tim Martin
Systematic Errors In Intro Lab Video Analysis, John Zwart, Kayt E. Frisch, Tim Martin
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In video analysis lab experiments, students frequently find large discrepancies between results based on self-filmed videos and expected values (e.g. for g determined by a fit to projectile motion data). These differences are frequently far larger than the uncertainty calculated from their fit. Using an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom to record video, we investigated two possible causes of this error: the effect of placing the reference meter stick at a different object-to-camera distance and the effect of the motion of interest being in a plane not perpendicular to the camera lens. When we observed these phenomena …