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How to find amount of energy which goes to heat in a system of damped springs in a gravity field?
I am writing a simple computer simulation of a system (in 2 dimensions), with several circular bodies. They all affect each other by their gravity and some of them are connected via damped springs (...
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A question on vertical spring mass systems
For a given mass attached to a vertical spring (near the surface of the earth), how do we know that the equilibrium point is halfway between its oscillation? (Let the height at the bottom of ...
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Dynamics of a Vertical Mass-Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator with Gravity
I am having some trouble obtaining the elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy of a simple mass spring system.
In this experiment, masses attached to a spring were dropped from a ...
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