Mechanical Oscillations Tutorials

by Matthew E. Des Voigne

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• Simple Harmonic Motion (introductory)
  tutorial
• Nonsimple Harmonic Motion (junior-level)
  • perturbed harmonic oscillator
  • anharmonic oscillator
• Simple Pendulum (Junior-level)
  • Variation of period with amplitude
  • Beating of forced pendulum
• Poincarre Mapping, Predictable Attractors, Strange Attractors, and Deterministic Chaos (Senior or graduate-level physics)
  • Poincarre Mapping
• Hysteresis (Senior or graduate-level physics)
  • Hysteresis

General instructions

User's Manual (which is the paper accompanying this project)

User evaluation form