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Simple Harmonic Motion Examined

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. J. Atkinson
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Extract

To the ordinary student simple harmonic motion is the motion of the bob of a swinging pendulum, of a mass at the end of an oscillating spring, or of a point on the rim of an oscillating fly-wheel; by definition, a body or particle is moving in simple harmonic motion if its acceleration is proportional to its distance from a fixed point, and directed towards that point.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 28 , Issue 282 , December 1944 , pp. 173 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1944

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References

Page 173 of note * Demonstrated to the London Brangh, January 1937.

Page 173 of note † Made by Messrs. G. Cussons, Ltd., Manchester, 7.