Hooke's Law and the Harmonic Oscillator Documents

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HOOKE’S LAW AND THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR
written by
Adrian Fernandez-Gavela, Cristina Gonzalez-Gago, and M. A. Cerdeira
When a mass hanging from a spring is separated a small distance from the equilibrium position, it oscillates under the action of a restoring force proportional to the distance to the equilibrium point. It can be verified that, in this situation, the mass describes a simple harmonic motion.
To study the restoring forces and the resulting motion we used a vertically hanging spring with a mass holder at the bottom. The oscillation motion of the different hanging masses is recorded, and the videos are analyzed with Tracker to obtain the respective trajectories.
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Last Modified July 22, 2021
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SHO Tracker Experiment
A Tracker Experiment file with a high speed MP4 video clip and trk data file showing how to analyze a mass attached to vertically hanging spring.
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