Chapter 17, Problem 18RQ

As part of a team investigating the effect of mass on the oscillation frequency of a spring, you obtain data from three different lab technicians, provided for you in the starter file online.

The data consists of frequency data on three different springs recording the amount of time it takes each spring with different masses attached to oscillate a certain number of times. In this experiment, each technician recorded the time it took for the spring to oscillate 25 times, stored in the variable N in the starter fie.

As part of the analysis, you need to write a program containing the experimental data provided. The data should be converted to make all units consistent. The data should then be passed into a function.

The function should accept three inputs: a vector containing mass measurements (grams), a vector containing time measurements (seconds), and a variable containing the number of oscillations observed in the experiment.

The function should return two matrices. The first matrix should contain the mass measurements (kilograms) in the first column and the period (seconds), or the length of time required for one oscillation for each mass in the second column. The second matrix should contain a calculation of the force applied (newtons) by each mass in the first column and the frequency, the number of oscillations per second, or the inverse of the period (hertz) for each mass measured in the second column.