Simple Harmonic Oscillator in 1 Dimension

Display vectors:
None Velocity Acceleration
Display values:
None Energy Position Velocity Acceleration

Initial position= m. Initial velocity= m/s. Spring constant= N/m. Damping= kg/s.

The units in the animation are MKS (meters, kilograms, and seconds). The mass is 1 kg. The damping constant is "b" in Equation 3.34 of Thornton and Marion.

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