Let Students Discover an Important Physical Property of a Slinky

• Philip Gash ^[1]
  1. [1] California State University at Chico
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 54, Nº. 7, 2016, págs. 431-433
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper describes a simple experiment that lets first-year physics and engineering students discover an important physical property of a Slinky. The restoring force for the fundamental oscillation frequency is provided only by those coils between the support and the Slinky center of mass.