All the exercises in the chapter, worked through step by step, in the order they appear in the book: first the guided exercises in the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, ranking, graphical, Fermi estimates).
Worked exercises in the text
- Finding A and φ from initial conditions
- Maximum speed from energy
- The seconds pendulum
- Pendulum on Mars
- Two pendulums coupled by a string
- Vertical spring with energy balance
End-of-chapter problems
- Pendulum that measures g
- Energy and amplitude
- Glass of water on the swing
- Mass on two springs in parallel
- Period and frequency of a mass-spring system
- Length of the seconds pendulum
- Lead and cork pendulums
- Maximum speed and acceleration
- Pendulum clock and temperature
- Graphs of position, velocity and acceleration
- Mass between two springs, equivalent K
- Natural frequency of a skyscraper
- Amplitude and period of the swing
- Object in a spherical bowl
- Damping and isochronism
- Ranking pendulums
- Ranking springs and masses
- Clock pendulum
- Simple harmonic oscillator (250 g)
- Given the graph, find k
- From amplitude to k
- Pendulum on the Space Station
- Double gravity
- Mass, spring and damping
- Resonance of the glass
- Two coupled swings
- Reading a damped oscillation graph
- Footsteps on the bridge
- Non-isochronous pendulum
- Mass hanging on a spring suspension
- Wet pendulum
- Vibrations of the Sun
- Rhythmic clapping and bridges
- Compound pendulum
- From measurements of a damped oscillation to Q
- Oscillation without damping