A student investigating how the period of a pendulum depends on amplitude should keep amplitudes:

  1. all equal
  2. random
  3. small (within the equipment and theory limits), but spread over that range
  4. very large
Answer

C) small (within the equipment and theory limits), but spread over that range

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