Thursday, August 11, 2011

Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the force exerted by the string on the pendulum.?

From what I know, a conical pendulum is not the same as an ordinary pendulum. In an ordinary pendulum, the hanging m moves back and forth on the vertical plane. In a conical pendulum, on the other hand, the hanging m moves on the horizontal plane in circular motion in such a way that the string of the pendulum sweeps out the surface of a cone (a three dimensional object). That's how it got the name conical pendulum. An ordinary pendulum that moves on a two dimensional plane cannot possibly describe the three dimensional figure of a cone. In an actual problem involving a conical pendulum, the speed of circular motion of the hanging m on the horizontal plane must also be given.Either that important information was unintentionally left out and forgotten or the term canonical pendulum has been mistakenly used.

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