The pendulum is not really a simple pendulum i.e. a point mass on a massless rod so, a systematic error is introduced. Rotational inertia of the pendulum is ignored during this experiment. Doing so resulted in the actual value of velocity of the ball being slower than the value we calculated during the experiment?. Friction is also an soure of error. Friction is slowing the pendulum which means that actual momentum of the projectile is less than we calculated in the experiment.
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