Discover the Secrets of Simple Harmonic Motion

The factor that determines the stiffness or looseness of a spring.

The relationship between the force exerted by a spring and the displacement of the object it acts upon.

The force of the spring is always opposite the direction of the movement of the object.

<p>Because it attempts to move the object back to its equilibrium position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elastic potential energy = (1/2)kx^2, where k is the spring constant and x is the distance it is stretched or compressed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Simple harmonic motion is a periodic motion where an object oscillates back and forth between more compressed and less compressed states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>For a system to exhibit simple harmonic motion, the motion must be periodic, the system must have a restoring force that is proportional to the displacement, and there should be no significant damping or friction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>During the motion of a block attached to a spring, the elastic potential energy reaches a maximum when the spring is most or least compressed and the block is changing direction, while the kinetic energy is at a maximum when the block is right in the middle and moving the fastest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The graph of the position of the block against time for simple harmonic motion would display sinusoidal behavior, similar to a trigonometric sine function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The equilibrium position in simple harmonic motion is the position where the object is at rest before any external force is applied.</p> Signup and view all the answers