Swing High Study Group
For the Swing High Study Group, we had a series of meetings for three weeks, after everybody read the lecture notes.
We went to the swings near Kelburn Park for our field trip, taking video and photos of swinging on swings and of a simple pumped pendulum experiment.
Assessment will be 10% for one assignment, and 90% for the written project reports. Discussions are in a group, but each student will write their own report. The assignment is due to me by Fri 9 August, but is optional - if no assignment is done, I will assess you 100% on your report.
Discussions are finished. Your report is due in to me by or on Monday 9 Sep, the first day of lectures after the mid-Trimester break.
Lecture Notes for the Swing High Module
The assignment for the Swing High Module
Project instructions
Here are some links to what happened in 2012:
Here are some links to the online videos we watched:
Big Swing at a county fair
Homemade swing, Australia
Homemade swing, 360s both ways
Kids doing tricks, but some evidence of pumping
And here is some video I shot of everbody swinging drink bottles back and forth, under the stairs between AM and Cotton:
Here are some videos of swing high experiments conducted in 2010
Some Whiteboard Photos from 2010 