2250 meets 7:30am daily in JTB 140
Updated:
Sunday April 08: 20:41PM, 2012 Today:
Saturday December 14: 08:58AM, 2024
* Simple Harmonic Oscillator - with and without damping, transfer of energy between kinetic and potential forms * Damped Harmonic Oscillator - underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped * Forced Harmonic Oscillator - transient and steady state response to a force applied to the mass * The Simple Pendulum - comparing the linear approximation (small angle) with a real pendulum * Coupled Oscillators - energy transfer between two mass-spring systems coupled together * Dynamic Absorbers - J.P. Den Hartog's classical undamped tuned dynamic absorber * Tacoma Narrows Bridge - (0.668 MB mpeg movie) - when engineers don't account for resonance when designing structures
Grant B. Gustafson 155 South 1400 East Room 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090Office phone: (801) 581-6879
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