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Absentee :
Activity A
A) A Simple Pendulum Experiment
Objective :
In this pendulum experiment, we want to find g (acceleration due to gravity).
Our main aim is to go through the process of scientific enquiry (but not to do
physics per se), namely the interplay between verification of a falsifiable theory
and an experiment.
Please read the following pages before you come for the Physics
Tutorials in weeks 5 and 6. You (your group) will be given a
worksheet to fill in.
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A) The Simple Pendulum
Physicists are curious about interesting phenomena (beauty and symmetry) and
how nature works. They are not motivated by utility. Physics is first and foremost
an experimental science where scientists devise experiments and possible
theories to describe (or explain) data obtained from experiments.
Phenomenological theories are used to guide future experiments if any current
theory fails.
You will start from Section 2 when you attend the Physics Tutorial.
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