Pendulums

1. Personal experience with swinging on anything.
Swinging on a swing set. Swinging on the top bar or the swing set. Being on a ride that swings back and forth. monkey bars.

2. What applications to "real life" do swinging objects have.
Pendulums swinging back and forth.

3.What is your prediction about what will happen if two people are on one trapeze and only one is on the other and then one switches to the other. Explain (in terms of mass)
The trapeze who receives a person would gain more mass and it would cause it to be harder to gain more momentum since there is more mass whereas the swing who losses a person has less mass which is easier to gain momentum. It is a transfer of energy from the one with to to the one with just one.

4. What science understanding do you have about things that swing back and forth.
Gravity tends to slow down objects that are swinging back and forth at a rate.
Speed of the swinging objects travels at a specific rate


Predictions:
The more washers you add the slower the rate of swings made within the 10 seconds.
The weight would cause the momentum to slow down to not be able to make a full swing.
One washer: 12
Two washers: 11
Three washers: 10
Four washers: 8