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University Physics I - Classical Mechanics, 2019

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CONTENTS<br />

10.4 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

10.4.1 Orbital dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

10.4.2 Orbital data from observations: Halley’s comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245<br />

10.5 Advanced Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247<br />

10.5.1 Tidal Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247<br />

10.6 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249<br />

11 Simple harmonic motion 253<br />

11.1 Introduction: the physics of oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253<br />

11.2 Simple harmonic motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254<br />

11.2.1 Energy in simple harmonic motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259<br />

11.2.2 Harmonic oscillator subject to an external, constant force . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

11.3 Pendulums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262<br />

11.3.1 The simple pendulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262<br />

11.3.2 The “physical pendulum” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265<br />

11.4 In summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266<br />

11.5 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268<br />

11.5.1 Oscillator in a box (a basic accelerometer!) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268<br />

11.5.2 Meter stick as a physical pendulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270<br />

11.6 Advanced Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272<br />

11.6.1 Mass on a spring damped by friction with a surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

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