Shanay Baby
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I did an experiment on the deflection of a cantilever, where I set up a lever like this:
http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_226.html
except that it is not balanced AND it was set up on something sticking out from the side of the table, I measured the deflection of the angle as I distanced the load from the pivot point, the further I placed the same load, the great the angle of the cantilever.
Then I made a graph showing angle vs. distance, but I'm not sure what the gradient would be?
I'm guessing it's something to do with the force?
http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_226.html
except that it is not balanced AND it was set up on something sticking out from the side of the table, I measured the deflection of the angle as I distanced the load from the pivot point, the further I placed the same load, the great the angle of the cantilever.
Then I made a graph showing angle vs. distance, but I'm not sure what the gradient would be?
I'm guessing it's something to do with the force?