Bashar
Lahlouh Department of Physics
University of Jordan
Amman, Jordan
Dr.
Lahlouh teaches physics for graduate
and undergraduate students at the University
of Jordan. Physics and science are the
passion of his life. He really enjoys
science and hopes all his students will
enjoy it too.
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Summary: This very interactive
video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum
experiment to enable students to answer
the fundamental question: What is the
value of g in my school and in my home?
Students will learn to calculate this
value by working in groups to make pendulums
of different lengths and by learning
to count pendulum oscillations. Dr.
Lahlouh also encourages students to
contact students in other parts of the
country or of the world with the goal
of constructing a g-map. The only prerequisite
for this lesson is a basic introduction
to gravity. Supplies needed for this
learning video include a 2-m long piece
of light string; a mass (can be any
small object e.g. some coins); measuring
tape; stopwatch; nail; and a roll of
scotch tape. The video lesson will take
about one-hour. Some of the activities
suggested for students between video
segments include class discussions,
the building of pendulums, and the working
through of equations related to the
measured oscillations of the students’
pendulums.
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This site provides
a video lecture by MIT physics professor,
Walter Lewin. Concepts covered in
this lecture begin with the restoring
force of a spring (Hooke's Law) which
leads to an equation of motion that
is characteristic of a simple harmonic
oscillator (SHO). Using the small
angle approximation, a similar expression
is reached for a pendulum. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/detail/embed10.htm
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