Marked Report 1

In this practical we were given a suspended beam to investigate, this consisted of a wooden rod and two strings. The aspect I will investigate is the way it unwinds when twisted as illustrated in the diagram below. As can be seen the strings were attached to one point and the beam twisted 10 times. I noticed that the time taken to unwind was less when the distance from the end of the beam to the string attachment was...

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