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GROUP 3

TORQUE LAB
ACCELERATED PHYSICS
Miss Susana Alulod
Nichaporn Nattawut
Gawin Lohabulananont
Witchayut Ngarmpornchai
Achitphol Poollarp

Mahidol University International


Demonstration School
Semester 1 Academic year 2017-2018
OBJECTIVE
To understand and be able
to calculate amount of
torque exerts on a system.

INTRODUCTION
    Torque or moment is the tendency of a force to rotate an
object around a fulcrum or pivot. By to calculate the torque
the formula is force multiply by the displacement. The force
need to be perpendicular to the displacement from the force
to the fulcrum. Therefore if the displacement is short then
the more force is required and if the displacement is long
then the less force is needed to create the same moment. If
an object is not rotating or the system is in an equilibrium
state, the total torque by adding the torque of both
clockwise and counterclockwise is equal to zero. If the force
is rotate in the counterclockwise direction then the torque
will be positive. Conversely, if the force is rotate in the
clockwise direction then the torque will be negative.
 If the force and the displacement vector is not
perpendicular then you need to resolve either the vector
quantity of the force or the vector quantity of the
displacement from the force to the fulcrum in to component
in the x-axis and y-axis to makes the force and the
displacement vector perpendicular to each other. Another
formular to be more convenient is the moment in the
counterclockwise direction is equal to the moment in the
clockwise direction.
       In the experiment, we hang the ruler on a stand, and
hang the counterweight on the ruler, so the force that is
acted on the ruler is the weight of the counterweight. We
measure the force of the other side(with different
displacement to the fulcrum) by hanging a spring scale and
hold the spring scale so that the system is at equilibrium. We
did the experiment in two cases: torque as a function of
distance, and torque as a function of angle & distance. In
torque as a function of distance, we did 3 trials of
experiment, with different amount of forces on each trial: 1N,
2N, 3N respectively. In the 3 trials of torque as function of
angle & distance, we used the same amount of force in all
three trials, but we pull the spring scale in different angles:
51°, 32°, and 13° respectively.
MATERIALS
Ruler
Counterweight
Newton spring balance
Clamp stand
Protractor
Clay
SET UP
A) Without angle
SET UP
B) With angles
PROCEDURE
   1. Set the materials by attaching the ruler in
the clamp stand
   2. Put a clay to balance the ruler to make
the system is at equilibrium
   3. Put the weight on the counterweight
   4. Hang the weighted counterweight on
the fourth hole(20 cm) from the center of
the ruler.
   5. Hang the spring scale on the other side
in the third hole(15 cm) from the center of
the ruler.
   6. Measure the force by holding the spring
scale so that the system is at equilibrium.
Read the spring scale.
   7. Repeat step 1-6 with different weight of
the counterweight (1N, 2N, 3N), and different
angle of the spring scale (51°, 32°, 13°).
DATA & RESULT
CALCULATION
CALCULATION
ANALYSIS
    In this experiment, some of the percent
change comes from when we measure the
weight of the counterweight. The gravity that
we use to measure the weight if the
counterweight is 10 m/s2, instead of 9.81
m/s2. Also, when we pull the spring scale
down to make the summation of torque
equal to zero with an angle, especially in 51°
angle, the torque of the x and y axis of the
system is equal to zero, but not in the z axis,
which means the system is tilting left or right,
it’s quite hard to control. What we did to
prevent that happening is we held the ruler
very softly, making the system to not move to
the left or right, and that may cause the
percent change to increase, but it is
impossible to read the spring scale if the
system is swinging around all the time.
CONCLUSION
    In conclusion, different amount of force is
needed to balance the system. More force is
required to balance the system when it acts
with an angle because a force does not
create direct torque to the system. The most
efficient way of creating torque is to act
perpendicularly to the length of the system.

RECOMMENDATION
    Next time if we have a chance we will
use better protractor so the trail for the
force with an angle will be more accurate.
Also we will be more accurate on using
clay to balance the newton spring balance
so the measure force will be more
accurate.
REFERENCES
Torque. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.khanacademy.org/s
cience/physics/torque-angular-
momentum/torque-
tutorial/a/torque

(n.d.). Retrieved from


https://www.physics.uoguelph.ca
/tutorials/torque/Q.torque.intro.ht
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