Columbia University Physics Lecture Demonstrations
Oscillations and Waves
3A - OSCILLATIONS
10. Pendula
3A10.1 Simple Pendulum
20. Springs and Oscillators
3A20.1 Mass on a Spring
3A20.2 Four Vibrating Masses
40. Simple Harmonic Motion
3A40.1 Circular Motion vs. Mass on a Spring
3A40.52 Simple Harmonic Motion with a Pasco Motion Sensor
60. Driven Mechanical Resonance
3A60.1 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse - Video
3A60.2 Forced Mechanical Oscillator
70. Coupled Oscillators
3A70.1 Spring-Coupled Pendula
3A70.10 Wilberforce pendulum
75. Normal Modes
3A75.1 Spring-Coupled Pendula
3A75.10 Coupled harmonic oscillators (Normal modes)
80. Lissajous Figures
3A80.1 Lissajous Figures on the Oscilloscope
95. Nonlinear Systems
3A95.45 Jump phenomena
3A95.50 Double Pendula
3A95.60 Parametric resonance of a pendulum