Experimental Analysis: Forced Harmonic Motion and Resonance

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First of all I would like to clarify that I don't live in an English-speaking country, which means that certain nomenclatures and symbols may be different and may make it difficult to understand, so if you are unable to understand something, I will be happy to help.

Regarding the exercise itself, I need help mainly with questions 3 and 4 that I sent in the original format (excel), as I am not sure if the file will work I am sending images too.
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The exercise is based on an experiment consisting of a spring-mass system connected to a motor, the goal is to gradually increase the rotation of the motor until the spring enters resonance while amplitude and time data are collected.
Spreadsheet titled Experimental Analysis: Forced Harmonic Motion and Resonance Activity for the Laboratory Class, with a table of 15 rows giving voltage (V), period (s) and amplitude (cm), plus angular frequency and amplitude columns.
Line graph titled Amplitude X Angular Frequency Graph, plotting amplitude in centimeters against angular frequency from 0 to 22, peaking near 10 at about 11.5, with the surrounding text giving the resonance width calculation.
Typeset exercises 3 and 4: exercise 3 gives the amplitude A(ωF) = (F0/m) / sqrt((ω0² − ωF²)² + 4γ²ωF²) and asks to show the resonance frequency is ωF = sqrt(ω0² − 2γ²); exercise 4 asks for the spring constant with oscillator mass 0.360 kg and two springs in series.
 
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The expression you are given for A(ωF) in qn 3 is wrong. The square root in the denominator should extend right across.
##\sqrt{(\omega_0^2-\omega_F^2)^2}+4\gamma^2\omega_F^2## would obviously reduce to ##{|\omega_0^2-\omega_F^2|}+4\gamma^2\omega_F^2##.
It should be ##\sqrt{(\omega_0^2-\omega_F^2)^2+4\gamma^2\omega_F^2}##.
Can you take it from there?
 
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