Question

Did to gravity, the moon has a much smaller acceleration than earth. How do you think that would affect the period of pendulum?

Answer 1

based on my opinion....

as we know that gravity in moon are less than gravity in earth.. since the force of gravity is less on the moon, the pendulum would swing slower at the same length, angle

and the frequency would be less.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

I think any pendulum would swing slower on the moon than it would on Earth.

The time it takes a pendulum to go through a complete back and forth swing is:

Time period = 2 π √(length/gravity)

You can see that 'gravity' is in the denominator of the fraction, so the smaller gravity gets, the longer the period gets.

To be a little bit more technical, the period is inversely proportional to the square root of gravity.

So the period for a complete swing on the moon would be √(9.8/1.6) times as long as the complete swing of the same pendulum on Earth.

That number is roughly 2.47 .

So, for every 1 second that a pendulum takes to swing back and forth once on Earth, the same pendulum would take 2.47 seconds to do it on the moon.