Monday, February 26, 2007

Harmonic Oscillator Vmax is proportional to A not sqrt A

In your ocillator lab reports, a large number of you are telling me that Vmax is proportional to A^1/2, despite the fact that your graphs clearly show Vmax is linear with A, NOT with the square root of A. In fact your graphs all show that Vmax =omega x A. All of which makes the fact that you answer the question saying Vmax is propoertional to A^1/2 a complete mystery to me. From where are you getting this misinformation? In any case, please correct your reports.

A, of course is amplitude, which is the maximum displacemnt from the equilbrium.

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