Question 1 · 1 mark · Foundation · Practical · Diagnostic
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Investigating damping of a spring
Fit a small or large card vane to a mass on a spring, film the oscillations and step through the video to read the decaying amplitude, then compare decay constants on graphs of ln A against time.
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Question 2 · 3 marks · Standard · Practical · Practical method