Periodic Motion

Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume examine simple harmonic motion. They show how a pen moving in simple harmonic motion plots its own displacement-time graph, and how graphs of velocity and acceleration versus time are derived from it. Explains that the formula for the period of simple harmonic motion is derived from one component of circular motion, showing how the dynamics and period of simple harmonic motion are checked experimentally by the oscillation of a dry-ice puck mounted between springs.