The heavy spring at work
Popular Physics
2018-05-01 v2
Abstract
Springs are used in simple demonstrations for the students of Physics classes to illustrate the Hooke's Law and harmonic oscillations. The spring is usually considered as a light object that does not possess a mass. What happens if the spring is heavy, that is, if its mass is not negligible? This paper aims to discuss this problem as plainly as possible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1101.0570,
title = {The heavy spring at work},
author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0570},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Heavy spring, Hooke's Law, Oscillation, Physics class, Figure 3 revised