Apr 26, 2022
8 min read
Three Solutions for the Simple Harmonic Oscillator
Let’s be honest — the world is made of springs. OK, maybe they aren’t literally springs but they are approximately springs. Yes, for small oscillations we can approximate stuff as a simple harmonic oscillator.
The Physics Problem
Suppose you have a mass (m) connected to a spring and the mass can ONLY move in the x-direction and the spring is the only…
