Timing a large number of oscillations accounts for instrument error. If each oscillation takes exactly 1.0001 seconds, but the timer can only measure to the tenth of a second, it takes 1000 oscillations to detect the fractional second. If this pendulum is being used for something for a very long period of time, the error might result in a significant drift in behavior. If this pendulum runs a grandfather clock, the clock will lose 1 second every 10000 seconds (approximately 3 hours). This accounts for 8 seconds per day, nearly a minute per week, and about 50 minutes per year. This might be acceptable for a novelty piece like a grandfather clock, but if it governs something more important, it will have a significant effect.
Accounting for minute differences like this is one of the more annoying parts of scientific method, called scientific rigor. It's important in real experiments, and indoctrination of science students in rigor starts long before the students start doing stuff where it's practical, so it often frustrates students a great deal.
Because you can get an average, to better account for errors in measurement
In practice (as opposed to theory) not only the force of gravity from the earth but all matter in the pendulum's vicinity. The drag caused by air on the pendulum shaft and weight, the friction in the suspension, the Coriolis effect...
Frequency.
The shorter the pendulum the more swings you get.
The frequency of a pendulum is 1 divided by (the number of seconds to make one complete swing)
No. Only the length of the string and the value of g does.
If you know what you're doing, and you work carefully, you canuse that information to determine the frequencyof the wave.
In practice (as opposed to theory) not only the force of gravity from the earth but all matter in the pendulum's vicinity. The drag caused by air on the pendulum shaft and weight, the friction in the suspension, the Coriolis effect...
-- Determine the number of revolutions, vibrations, reciprocations, or full oscillations in one second. -- Multiply that number by (2 pi).
Frequency.
The shorter the pendulum the more swings you get.
There's no relationship between the length of the pendulum and the number of swings.However, a shorter pendulum has a shorter period, i.e. the swings come more often.So a short pendulum has more swings than a long pendulum has in the same amountof time.
The frequency of a pendulum is 1 divided by (the number of seconds to make one complete swing)
It is Frequency, usually measured in hertz.
The frequency of the wave.
If it is a short pendulum, then the leg or whatever you call it has a smaller distance to cover, and therefore can swing faster than a longer pendulum.
Assuming that this question concerns a pendulum: there are infinitely many possible answers. Among these are: the name of the person swinging the pendulum, the colour of the pendulum, the day of the week on which the experiment is conducted, the mass of the pendulum, my age, etc.
The length of the pendulum, the angular displacement of the pendulum and the force of gravity. The displacement can have a significant effect if it is not through a small angle.