Answer the katers pendulum consists of a rigid metal bar with two pivot points one near each end of the bar it can be suspended from either pivot and swung question 5 ben and marge are purchasing a house with a 20 year 5 1 arm for 265000 at 525 with a 3 12 cap structure what will the difference in p . Theory katers pendulum shown in fig 1 is a physical pendulum composed of a metal rod 120 m in length upon which are mounted a sliding metal weight w 1 a sliding wooden weight w 2 a small sliding metal cylinder w and two sliding knife edges k 1 and k 2 that face each other each of the sliding objects can be clamped in place on the rod. 2nd year laboratory script g1 katers pendulum arb september 2010 v21 page 1 department of physics and astronomy 2nd year laboratory g1 katers pendulum scientific aims and objectives o to determine an accurate value for g in the lab here in sheffield and compare it with an empirically calculated value. Katers pendulum is a reversible pendulum designed and built by captain henry kater in 1817 to measure the acceleration of free fall so that gravity may be calculated without knowledge of the pendulums centre of gravity and radius of gyration