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G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
In this section are demonstrations of coupling and resonance in mechanical oscillations.
Articles
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Title
G2-01 MASS ON SPRING - HAND HELD
Demonstrates resonance and phase shift at resonance
G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.
G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.
G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
G2-06: FRAHM'S FREQUENCY METER
Check the 60 Hz line voltage frequency.
G2-07: PSYCHOACOUSTIC VIBRATION TRANSDUCER
Challenge your students to recognize pseudoscience while illustrating resonance
G2-08: DRIVEN NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR
Demonstrate amplitude "jumps" and resonance hysteresis in Duffing's equation.
G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.
G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.
G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Demonstrate driven resonance.
G2-21 COUPLED PENDULA
Demonstrates coupling of motion between two pendula of the same length
G2-22: BAR-COUPLED PENDULA
Demonstrate a coupling resonance and to show normal modes.
G2-23: SPRING-COUPLED PHYSICAL PENDULA
Demonstrate resonance and normal modes.
G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Illustrate mechanical resonance.
G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Illustrate a complex resonance system.
G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.
G2-27: COUPLED SERIES MASSES HANGING ON SPRINGS
Illustrate coupled oscillations and normal modes.
G2-28: COUPLED PENDULA WITH VARIABLE DRIVER
Show that the maximum coupling occurs between pendula of the same length.
G2-41: WILBERFORCE PENDULUM
Demonstrate a linear coupling resonance and normal modes.
G2-42: ELASTIC PENDULUM
Demonstrate a non-linear coupling resonance and stable fixed points.