Abstract
To design shipboard scales, the authors derived the general equation of motion for the simple lever suspended on a moving base, and characterized the behavior of the lever theoretically in previous paper.
In this paper, authors report the experiments to test the theoretical results.
In their experiment, it is planned that the levers have the products of inertia Iyz, Izx and Ixy and that the angle between the rotation axis of the base and the fulcrum axis may be changed.
As for the motion of the base, the authors constructed a seesaw which has an arm 2.5m long, a maximum swing angle of 0.28rad and a natural period of about 13sec in the laboratory.
The experimental results agree well with the theoretical ones.
