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- Third Party Resource Title: Virtual Pendulum Experiments & Mechanical Oscillations
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/workshop_2021/activities/245714.html
- Description: The pendulum motion is one of the first encounters with the concept of a harmonic oscillator. This activity seeks to complement a traditional, rigorous, theoretical approach with a rigorous numerical model. It employs MATLAB to visualize how the characteristics of the pendulum and its environment change the motion in the animated figures. Focuses on the following physics concepts: forces, friction, drag, gravity, energy conservation, rotational motion, periodic motion, pendulum, and oscillations.
- Publish Year: 2021
- Institution: Florida Institute of Technology
