Recovery and study of an Atwood machine belonging to the University of Barcelona Faculty of Physics Authors Santiago Vallmitjana Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica. Universitat de Barcelona Carme Clemente Escola d'Art i Disseny de la Diputació de Tarragona a Tortosa Francisco Pérez-Blanco Escola d'Art i Disseny de la Diputació de Tarragona a Tortosa Keywords: restoration of scientific instruments, instruments of physics, experimental physics, instruments for experimental physics, Atwood’s machine Abstract Through a collaboration agreement with the University of Barcelona Faculty of Physics, the restoration workshop at the School of Art and Design of the Regional Government of Tarragona, in Tortosa, has restored an interesting device for the teaching of physics through experimental demonstrations. It is an instrument designed by the English scientist George Atwood for the study and the measure of the acceleration, and in particular the fall of the bodies and the calculation of the acceleration of gravity. The present work examines the accuracy with realmeasuresmade with the device and explains the process of intervention and restoration. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2011-05-23 Issue Nova època, vol. 3 (2) : 2010 Section Research Notes License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
