Two Coupled Simple Harmonic Oscillators

Display values:
None Energy Position Velocity Acceleration

Red ball initial displacement= m. Blue ball initial displacement= m.

Left & right edge spring constants= N/m. Center spring constant= N/m.

The units in the animation are MKS (meters, kilograms, and seconds). The masses are both 1 kg, and the grid spacing is 10 cm.

By Robert Johnson, using the Physlet Animator and dataGraph classes from Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni.