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Grade 11Wave Motion

A simple pendulum 50 cm long is suspended from the roof of a cart accelerating in the horizontal direction with constant acceleration root(3) g m/s2 . The period of small oscillations of the pendulum about its equilibrium position is (g = pi^2 m/s2) :
ans: 1 sec.
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Profile image of Deepthi
9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Sarthak Gupta
8 Years ago
Take vector summation of root3 g and g with angle 90° . g eff will be 2g. Then apply T= 2pi root(l/g eff)