Section 4.1  Introduction: The Mass-Spring Oscillator

• to be able to find synchronous solutions to forced oscillator equations
• to become familiar with the terminology of mass-spring oscillations

• Hooke's Law

 
• damping coefficient

 
• external forces

 
• damped vs. overdamped oscillations

 
• forced and unforced oscillations

 

solved problems - using key ideas

• given y(t) = Acost + Bsint, find synchronous solutions to a forced oscillator equation, #3

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Find the integral

SOLUTION

SOLUTION.

  SOLUTION.
 
 
 

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