Simple Harmonic Motion and Mechanical Resonance (Part 2)

Common area

Individual station

• Lab Quest Mini w/ USB cable and telecom to digital adapter
• Air track
• Blower and hoses (one blower can feed two air tracks)
• Driving motor
• Photogate timer (primary only)
• Rotary encoder
• Telecom to rotary encoder cable
• Glider
  • Rubber band (to hold springs)
  • Threaded rod w/ nut (to hold string)
  • 2 damping magnets (on glider posts)
• 2 springs
• Pulley on a post
• Flag
• Heavy-duty string (for connecting motor to spring)
• String attached to 1 mass clip (passed over rotary encoder)
• 4 additional mass clips