Object — Elastic element that exerts a restoring force proportional to its deformation.
Present in chapters
00·02·04·04b
Linked atoms
50 linked atoms.
00 Physical quantities, estimates, equilibrium
- Equilibrium of a point mass
- Worked exercise — Ball between two parallel springs
- Worked exercise — Box with a spring: equilibrium region
- Types of forces
02 Forces and Newton’s laws
- Lift with scale and spring
- Two springs in parallel
- Worked exercise — two boxes with a spring and a pulley
- Problem — Hooke’s law from experimental data
- Problem — Spring with two hanging masses
03 Inclined plane and circular motion
04 Energy and work
- Elastic potential energy
- Worked exercise — block on an inclined plane with spring and friction
- Worked exercise — apple and spring
- The potential energy parabola
- Period of small oscillations
- Problem — Block on an inclined plane with a spring (equilibrium and oscillations)
- Problem — Spring constant from a graph
- Problem — Two springs and a box
- Problem — Work done by the spring from a graph
- Problem — Reading the F(x) graph of a spring
- Problem — Spring compressed by a block
- Problem — Ball, spring, friction and flight (4 states)
- Problem — Ball launched by a spring
- Problem — Bungee jump
- Problem — Summary: inclined plane and spring
04b Oscillations and simple harmonic motion
- Energy in the harmonic oscillator
- Worked exercise — Mass, spring and damping
- Worked exercise — Vertical spring with energy balance
- Worked exercise — Finding A and φ from the initial conditions
- Worked exercise — Maximum speed from energy
- The equation of simple harmonic motion
- The solution: sine and cosine
- Normal modes of the coupled oscillator
- Forced oscillations and resonance
- Damped oscillations
- Problem — From the amplitude to k
- Problem — Given the graph, find k
- Problem — Energy and amplitude
- Problem — Mass hanging on a spring suspension
- Problem — Mass between two springs, equivalent K
- Problem — Mass on two springs in parallel
- Problem — Simple harmonic oscillator (250 g)
- Problem — Period and frequency of a mass-spring system
- Problem — Ranking springs and masses
- Problem — Maximum speed and acceleration