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Week 1 Basics of Oscillations

This document introduces the basics of mechanical oscillations. It discusses: 1) The equation of motion for a simple harmonic oscillator and its general solution involving amplitude, angular frequency, time, and phase angle. 2) How to calculate key oscillation parameters from the solution including amplitude, time period, eigenfrequency, angular eigenfrequency, and phase angle. 3) A diagram of a basic mechanical oscillator system showing a mass on a spring.

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Week 1 Basics of Oscillations

This document introduces the basics of mechanical oscillations. It discusses: 1) The equation of motion for a simple harmonic oscillator and its general solution involving amplitude, angular frequency, time, and phase angle. 2) How to calculate key oscillation parameters from the solution including amplitude, time period, eigenfrequency, angular eigenfrequency, and phase angle. 3) A diagram of a basic mechanical oscillator system showing a mass on a spring.

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Week 1

Basics of oscillations

Exercise 1.1 Structure of a Matlab script and computing a differential equation


Exercise 1.2 Plot a simple graph
Exercise 1.3 Calculate basic parameters of an oscillation
xሶ t
System Model x
x t
c t
m

Equation of motion: xሷ + ω20 x = 0 Solution: x t = xො ∙ cos (ω0 t − φ)


xሶ t = −ොx ∙ ω0 ∙ sin (ω0 t − φ)
Basic parameters
x t displacement at time t
xො amplitude

Calculate amplitude
xሶ t
System Model x
x t
c t
m
T

Equation of motion: xሷ + ω20 x = 0 Solution: x t = xො ∙ cos (ω0 t − φ)


xሶ t = −ොx ∙ ω0 ∙ sin (ω0 t − φ)
Basic parameters
x t displacement at time t
xො amplitude
T time period

Calculate time period


xሶ t
System Model x
x t
c t
m

ሷ 20 x=0
Equation of motion: x+ω Solution: x t = xො ∙ cos (ω0 t − φ)

Basic parameters already taken from the diagram: xො, T


1
f0 = eigenfrequency
T
ω0 = 2π ∙ f0 angular eigenfrequency

Calculate eigenfrequency and angular eigenfrequency


xሶ t
System Model x
x t
c t
m tφ

Equation of motion: xሷ + ω20 x = 0 Solution: x t = xො ∙ cos (ω0 t − φ)


xሶ t = −ොx ∙ ω0 ∙ sin ω0 t − φ
Basic parameters 0 = −ොx ∙ ω0 ∙ sin (ω0 tφ − φ)
x t displacement at time t → sin ω0 tφ − φ = 0 → ω0 tφ − φ = 0
xො amplitude φ = ω0 tφ
T time period
φ phase angle

Calculate phase angle

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