PHY138: Physics for the Life Sciences

Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Jason Harlow
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Waves Section, Lecture 1: Oscillations, Simple Harmonic Motion

Chapter 14: Oscillations.

·       Section 14.1: Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M.)

·       Section 14.2: SHM and Circular Motion

  • Section 14.3: Energy in S.H.M.

 

Side-screen Slides

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Powerpoint Format (.ppt)

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Central Screen tablet notes

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Flash Animation Showing how SHM relates to circular motion

 

Another quick flash animation showing SHM in two different physical situations

 

White & Nerdy video by Weird Al  - do you recognize the equation Al dances in front of during the last half of the video? It’s a wave equation!  Actually it’s the Scrodinger equation, which you’ll find in Chapter 40 of Knight (not covered in this course… L)

 

Excel Spreadsheet I showed in class for mass on a spring – fun to download and play around with it!