Imagine you swing a 20 meter long pendulum with a mass of 11 kg. Let the point at which the pendulum is hanging straight down be the zero point for the potential energy. For fun you pull the pendulum back an angle of 29 degrees from the vertical and release it from rest.
(a) Find the initial kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum at the moment just before you release it.
(b) Find the velocity of the pendulum at its lowest point of swing.
(c) Find the maximum height that the pendulum will swing to on the other side.
(a) Find the initial kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum at the moment just before you release it.
(b) Find the velocity of the pendulum at its lowest point of swing.
(c) Find the maximum height that the pendulum will swing to on the other side.