{"id":6280,"date":"2018-06-06T21:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:38","slug":"equivalent-descent-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2018\/06\/equivalent-descent-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Equivalent descent time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6207 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"0117181422\" width=\"348\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-772x1373.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422-351x624.jpg 351w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/0117181422.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right triangle shown above is made of taut string.<\/li>\n<li>Each side contains a brass ball that is free to slide along the string segment.<\/li>\n<li>Time of descent,\u00a0from top to bottom of segment, is equivalent for each of the three balls.<\/li>\n<li>This is true for any right triangle, with vertical hypotenuse,\u00a0 as the side lengths are reduced by the same factor as the rate of acceleration.<\/li>\n<li>String is mounted on white-board material so instructor can derive equations alongside triangle using a dry erase marker.<\/li>\n<li>Located in L02, section B3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right triangle shown above is made of taut string. Each side contains a brass ball that is free to slide along the string segment. Time of descent,\u00a0from top to bottom of segment, is equivalent for each of the three balls. This is true for any right triangle, with vertical hypotenuse,\u00a0 as the side lengths are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2018\/06\/equivalent-descent-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equivalent descent time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,6],"tags":[694,693,264,692,499,691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}