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  2. Simple harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    Other phenomena can be modeled by simple harmonic motion, including the motion of a simple pendulum, although for it to be an accurate model, the net force on the object at the end of the pendulum must be proportional to the displacement (and even so, it is only a good approximation when the angle of the swing is small; see small-angle ...

  3. 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 ...

  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. 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.

  6. Generalized coordinates - Wikipedia

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    A logical choice of generalized coordinates to describe the motion are the angles (θ, φ). Only two coordinates are needed instead of three, because the position of the bob can be parameterized by two numbers, and the constraint equation connects the three coordinates ( x , y , z ) so any one of them is determined from the other two.

  7. Sine wave - Wikipedia

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    The displacement of an undamped spring-mass system oscillating around the equilibrium over time is a sine wave. Sinusoids that exist in both position and time also have: a spatial variable x {\displaystyle x} that represents the position on the dimension on which the wave propagates.

  8. Absement - Wikipedia

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    Absement changes as an object remains displaced and stays constant as the object resides at the initial position. It is the first time-integral of the displacement [3] [4] (i.e. absement is the area under a displacement vs. time graph), so the displacement is the rate of change (first time-derivative) of the absement.

  9. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    A displacement consists of the combination of a rotation and a translation. The set of all displacements of M relative to F is called the configuration space of M. A smooth curve from one position to another in this configuration space is a continuous set of displacements, called the motion of M relative to F.