Pasta and Raisins/Marshmallows. Place a raisin or marshmallow on the end of a stick of spaghetti. Shake your hand back and forth to make the pasta/raisin system oscillate.A) Does the period depend on the mass? B) Does the period depend on the length? 1. Do you think this system’s motion would fall under the classification of simple harmonic motion? Provide as much evidence as you can for your answer 2.Do your answers to A and B above match a spring/mass system or a pendulum? How so? 3. Do you think this system can be modeled as a pendulum, spring, or neither? What are your reasons for each?

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Pasta and Raisins/Marshmallows.

Place a raisin or marshmallow on the end of a stick of spaghetti. Shake your hand back and forth to make the pasta/raisin system oscillate.A) Does the period depend on the mass? B) Does the period depend on the length?

1. Do you think this system’s motion would fall under the classification of simple harmonic motion? Provide as much evidence as you can for your answer

2.Do your answers to A and B above match a spring/mass system or a pendulum? How so?

3. Do you think this system can be modeled as a pendulum, spring, or neither? What are your reasons for each?

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