Lab Equipment for Teaching Physics

Note: oscilloscope not included

Features 

• Acquire resonant signal on oscilloscope

• Supporting and suspending methods

• High sensitivity and accuracy

• Affordable

  
  

Introduction

When rigid materials are subject to particular stress or forces, deformation (compressed, twisted, stretched, etc) may occur. For many materials, when suffered from force or stress, the resisting or restoring force that tends to return the material to its original shape is proportional to the deformation. Young's Modulus, E, is a constant that describes the material's mechanical property of stiffness and is expressed as the ratio of stress to strain for a material experiencing tensile or compressive stress. This apparatus is designed to study the deformation characteristics of a metal round bar sample by using the dynamic vibrational resonance method.

The dynamic resonance method is to study the vibrational law of a sample. Mathematically, the vibrational law can be described by a four-order partial differential equation, which shows the relationship between the Young's modulus and vibration frequency of a sample and can be related to three parameters of the sample, i.e. the diameter, length, and mass of the sample. While the three parameters are acquired, the Young's modulus can be determined by measuring the vibration resonant frequency of the sample. Two methods, i.e. supporting method and suspending method, are used to determine the resonant frequencies of three samples.

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