Single Degree of Freedom System-Video Simulation

[jrm2002]

Can anyone help me with some video simulations on vibrations in single degree of freedom system like the one in the link below

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=single+degree+of+freedom&ei=UTF-8&b=0&oid=a25e1d6eb35e01b8&rurl=www.wvutech.edu&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dsingle%2Bdegree%2Bof%2Bfreedom%26ei%3DUTF-8


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[radou]

You should be a bit more specific about what exactly your problem is.

 

[berkeman]

jrm2002 -- please provide a better post.

 

[Cyrus]

For one thing, this is harmonic motion with one degree of freedom.

Also, the initial conditions are:

x(0) ~= 4.45m

\dot {x(0)} ~= 0.6 m/s

I do not like this demonstration. They should have their neutral axis about the equilibrium position, not at around 4.5. They need to do a coordinate transformation.

You can easily see that this is a single degree of freedom by applying Gruebler's equation.