Harmonic oscillator Essays

  • Studying a Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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    Studying a Simple Harmonic Oscillator Objective --------- The simple harmonic motion of a pendulum can be studied by attaching a ticker-tape to a pendulum bob and analyzing the dots marked on the tape. Theory ------ In this experiment, a string was used to suspend a 0.5 kg mass. [IMAGE] Refer to the diagram above, [IMAGE] Considering the tangential force on the mass, [IMAGE] [IMAGE] ∴The oscillation is simple harmonic. Therefore, we can find out more on

  • Pendulum Investigation

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    Pendulum Investigation Introduction In this investigation, I will try to attempt an experiment that will measure the time taken for a pendulum to oscillate for one complete swing; I will also explore and investigate the numerous variables that might effect the time taken to oscillate. Factors effecting periodic time =============================== The factors, which might affect the time taken for a pendulum to complete one swing, are: 1. The length of string 2. Weight

  • Factors Affecting the Time Period for Oscillations in a Mass-spring System

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    Factors Affecting the Time Period for Oscillations in a Mass-spring System When a mass is attached to the end of a spring the downward force the mass applies on the spring will cause the spring to extend. We know from Hooke's law that the force exerted by the masses attached to the spring will be proportional to the amount the spring extends. F = kx When additional downward force is applied to the spring we can cause additional tension in the spring which, when released, causes the system

  • Determining Acceleration Due to Gravity

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    Determining Acceleration Due to Gravity The Determination of the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the earth, g, using a simple pendulum. Aim: The determination of the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the earth, g, using a simple pendulum Background ========== All bodies exert gravitational forces on one another. A large mass, such as the

  • Investigating the Oscillations of a Pendulum

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    Piece of thread (≈ 110 cm) Stop watch Two small wooden blocks metre rule Hypothesis and Theory:- In this experiment the set up below is arranged. This is a simple pendulum system which is a simple harmonic motion. In the figure below consider a small mass m attached to the end of a length l of wire. The other end is attached to a fixed point P and the mass oscillates along the arc. Suppose the mass during the motion at a point B at an instant,

  • Simple Pendulum Experiment Lab Report

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    The Simple Pendulum Experiment General Plan The first thing I am going to do is outline a general plan for this experiment. In this experiment, I am going to be measuring the effect of two variables on the time of one oscillation of a simple pendulum. The two variables that I have chosen are the length of the pendulum's string and the mass of the pendulum's bob. I will vary these two items and record results for the time of one oscillation of a pendulum

  • Summary Of Spirit Vale Maude Taylor

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    Characters: Thad, Amelie Taylor, Maude Taylor, Blythe Taylor, Emma Taylor, Nikola Tesla, Jane Taylor, Mimi Taylor Jade Taylor lives with her family. She has five sisters (Amelie, Emma, Blythe and Mimi). Her mother is a medium, so she focuses on the spiritual realm. Her father died of smallpox, leaving her mother in grief. This whole book starts off with Maude Taylor connecting with the spirit of Mary Adelaide. Mary Adelaide’s husband then thinks that Maude is just a fraud, when she connected with

  • Essay On Arduino

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    settings. • loop () – a function called repeatedly until the board powers off. A typical init... ... middle of paper ... ...ifier provides for steady-state operations that have low power utilization. 7.3 APPLICATION A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that utilizes the mechanical resonance of a vibrating crystal of piezoelectric material to create an electrical signal with a very exact frequency. This frequency is generally used to keep track of time (as in quartz wristwatches)

  • Progress and challenges in the design of MEMS Resonators

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    In a modern VLSI design aims to design a on chip components with low power, High Speed and with reduced size. All components in a digital designs like flip flops, counters need of frequency references and frequency sources. A Resonator will fulfil these requirements. We design and analysed a novel three types resonators as follows Temperature Compensated Resonator, Comb Drive Resonator, Piezoelectric Resonator. The design and analysis are all done in FEM (Finite Element Method) analysis tool. Keywords—Microelectromechanical

  • Word-Based Information Retrieval

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    Searching documents using keywords is a very common practice. This practice of word-based information retrieval is affected by two complimentary problems. First is, we may get some relevant as well as some irrelevant search results if we use the keyword along with some possible meaning of the same for the search. Second is, if only the title keyword is used then some relevant text may miss out as some times the text related to that keyword doesn’t contain that rather contains some context of that

  • FM Receivers

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    (DC or AC converted to DC). Finally, a transducer (speaker in the case of Radio) is needed to convert the message signal into its final form (audio, mechanical, etc¡­). Other components more specific to FM receivers are mixers combined with local oscillators used for frequency manipulation, limiters to control amplitude, de-emphasis and other filter circuits. 2 Mathematics of FM Unlike amplitude modulation (AM) where the message or modulating signal, call it m(t), is used to modulate the amplitude of

  • Black Body Radiation

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    discovery of electromagnetic [EM] energy quantization by Max Plank (1900) [1] needed to explain black body radiation distribution as a function of frequency and temperature. He explained it by a model where resonators (latter identified as harmonic oscillators) can emit radiation only by quanta of energy. Later Bohr [2] found the Quantum Mechanical model for the Hydrogen atom, using Planck’s constant as a measure for angular momentum quantization. An important concept in his work was the correspondence

  • Subtractive Synthesis Essay

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    I am going to explain the basic concepts of subtractive synthesis and the terminology of subtractive synthesisers with reference to acoustic principles. Envolves An envolope is a tool that helps us automate aspects of a sound, It generates a slow and evolving waveform which can be used modulate different parameters of the synthesiser like volume, pitch and timbre. The ADSR envelopes stands for attack, decay, sustain and release. The Attack of an Envelope Is the time its takes for the sound to reach

  • Radio Synthesis Essay

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    The frequency of an oscillator is altered or distorted. FM synthesis can generate both harmonic and in harmonic sounds. For synthesizing harmonic sounds, the modulating signal must have a harmonic relationship to the original carrier signal. IF the amount of frequency modulation increases, the sound grows progressively more complex. Through the use of modulators

  • The Physics of an AM Radio Receiver

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    The Physics of an AM Radio Receiver The AM Radio has been around for a long time. When the AM radio was first invented, it was not meant to be used to broadcast music. That is why today most music radio stations are on the FM band. Instead, the AM band was used to carry voice frequencies, thus, all the AM talk radio stations. Due to new technology, music is broadcast over the AM band but does not have the same sound quality as the FM band. According to the FCC regulations at www.fcc.gov, the AM

  • Neurobiology Personal Statement

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    While at Hudson Valley Community College I took classes in physics up to Physics III where I worked with models of various circuits (eg. RC circuit), harmonic oscillators (eg. particle in a box) and waves (eg. electromagnetic waves), and calculus classes up to differential equations where I learned to analytically solve equations related to these sorts of systems among others and solved systems of linear differential

  • DX7 Analysis

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    Yamaha’s DX7 was one of the first FM, synthesis-based digital synthesizers and electronic keyboard manufactured between 1983-1989. Stated by Robert Johnstone as “one of the first commercially successful digital synthesizers”, the DX7 was the ‘moderately priced’ model from the DX series keyboard synthesizers. Over 200,000 of the original DX7 were made, and it remains one of the best-selling synthesizers of all time. The DX7 held a lot of features that distinguished it from its predecessors and even

  • Thermal Physics

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    Thermal Physics – 340                         Exam #1 Due Monday, February 18th, at the start of class As discussed in class, submission of your solutions to this exam will indicate that you have not communicated with others concerning this exam. You may use reference texts and other information at your disposal. Do all problems separately on clean white standard 8.5” X 11” photocopier paper (no notebook paper or scratch paper). Write on only one side of the paper (I don’t do double sided). Staple

  • Simple Pendulum Essay

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    a pendulum or any oscillatory motion is the time required for one complete cycle, that is, the time to go back and forth once. If the amplitude of motion of the swinging pendulum is small, then the pendulum behaves approximately as a simple harmonic oscillator, and the period T of the pendulum is given approximately by; T=2π√l/g Where g is the acceleration of gravity. This expression for T becomes exact in the limit of zero amplitude motion and is less and less accurate

  • Essay On Trigonometry

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    Trigonometry Trigonometry (from Greek trigōnon "triangle" + metron "measure"[1]) is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclicalphenomena, such as waves. The field evolved during the third century BC as a branch of geometry used extensively for astronomical studies.[2] It is also the foundation