BELIEVE ME NOT! - - A SKEPTICs GUIDE

Simple Harmonic Motion

In the previous chapter we found several new classes of equations of motion. We now add one last paradigm to our repertoire - one so powerful and ubiquitous in Physics that it deserves a chapter all to itself.

Periodic Behaviour
Sinusoidal Motion
- Projecting the Wheel
Simple Harmonic Motion
- The Spring Pendulum
  - Imaginary Exponents
Damped Harmonic Motion
- Limiting Cases
Generalization of ${\cal SHM}$
The Universality of ${\cal SHM}$
Resonance

Jess H. Brewer
1998-10-09