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  2. Simple harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    Simple harmonic motion can be considered the one-dimensional projection of uniform circular motion. If an object moves with angular speed ω around a circle of radius r centered at the origin of the xy-plane, then its motion along each coordinate is simple harmonic motion with amplitude r and angular frequency ω.

  3. Action-angle coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Action angles result from a type-2 canonical transformation where the generating function is Hamilton's characteristic function (not Hamilton's principal function ).Since the original Hamiltonian does not depend on time explicitly, the new Hamiltonian (,) is merely the old Hamiltonian (,) expressed in terms of the new canonical coordinates, which we denote as (the action angles, which are the ...

  4. Harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic motion can mean: the displacement of the particle executing oscillatory motion that can be expressed in terms of sine or cosine functions known as harmonic motion . The motion of a Harmonic oscillator (in physics), which can be: Simple harmonic motion; Complex harmonic motion; Keplers laws of planetary motion (in physics, known as the ...

  5. Phase space - Wikipedia

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    For simple systems, there may be as few as one or two degrees of freedom. One degree of freedom occurs when one has an autonomous ordinary differential equation in a single variable, d y / d t = f ( y ) , {\displaystyle dy/dt=f(y),} with the resulting one-dimensional system being called a phase line , and the qualitative behaviour of the system ...

  6. Phase portrait - Wikipedia

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    Simple pendulum, see picture (right). Simple harmonic oscillator where the phase portrait is made up of ellipses centred at the origin, which is a fixed point. Damped harmonic motion, see animation (right). Van der Pol oscillator see picture (bottom right).

  7. Restoring force - Wikipedia

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    The restoring force is often referred to in simple harmonic motion. The force responsible for restoring original size and shape is called the restoring force. [1] [2] An example is the action of a spring. An idealized spring exerts a force proportional to the amount of deformation of the spring from its equilibrium length, exerted in a ...

  8. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    The vector r(t) has some projection (or, equivalently, some component) r ⊥ (t) on a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation. Then the angular position of that point is the angle θ from a reference axis (typically the positive x -axis) to the vector r ⊥ ( t ) in a known rotation sense (typically given by the right-hand rule ).

  9. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    A simple harmonic oscillator is an oscillator that is neither driven nor damped.It consists of a mass m, which experiences a single force F, which pulls the mass in the direction of the point x = 0 and depends only on the position x of the mass and a constant k.