Lecture 7: Oscillations and Spring

This lecture is based on the end of chapter 5 in the text (Chapter 4 in the 2nd edition)


Lecture Slides (pdf for viewing on screen)

Lecture Slides (pdf for printing)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse

The following two simulations are written using the (free) VPython language

You will be introduced to this in labs, but feel free to install and play with it yourself: link is http://www.vpython.org/

Spring Simulation Code