Exam 13: Periodic Motion

A 2.25-kg object is attached to a horizontal an ideal massless spring on a frictionless table. What should be the spring constant of this spring so that the maximum acceleration of the object will be g when it oscillates with amplitude of 4.50 cm?

A frictionless pendulum clock on the surface of the earth has a period of 1.00 s. On a distant planet, the length of the pendulum must be shortened slightly to have a period of 1.00 s. What is true about the acceleration due to gravity on the distant planet?

A 5.0-kg block is attached to an ideal massless spring whose spring constant is 125 N/m. The block is pulled from its equilibrium position at x = 0.00 m to a position at x = +0.687 m and is released from rest. The block then executes lightly damped oscillation along the x-axis, and the damping force is proportional to the velocity. When the block first returns to x = 0.00 m, its x component of velocity is -2.0 m/s and its x component of acceleration is +5.6 m/s². (a) What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the block upon release at x = +0.687 m. (b) Find the damping constant b.

In the figure, two masses, M = 16 kg and m = 12.8.0 kg, are connected to a very light rigid bar and are attached to an ideal massless spring of spring constant 100 N/m. The system is set into oscillation with an amplitude of 78 cm. At the instant when the acceleration is at its maximum, the 16-kg mass separates from the 12.8.0-kg mass, which then remains attached to the spring and continues to oscillate. What will be the amplitude of oscillation of the 12.8.0-kg mass?

A restoring force of magnitude F acts on a system with a displacement of magnitude x. In which of the following cases will the system undergo simple harmonic motion?

Which of following graphs describes simple periodic motion with amplitude 2.00 cm and angular frequency 2.00 rad/s?

A 56 kg bungee jumper jumps off a bridge and undergoes simple harmonic motion. If the period of oscillation is 11.2 s, what is the spring constant of the bungee cord, assuming it has negligible mass compared to that of the jumper?

A machine part is vibrating along the x-axis in simple harmonic motion with a period of 0.27 s and a range (from the maximum in one direction to the maximum in the other) of 3.0 cm. At time t = 0 it is at its central position and moving in the +x direction. What is its position when t = 55 s?

A 2.00-kg object is attached to an ideal massless horizontal spring of spring constant 100.0 N/m and is at rest on a frictionless horizontal table. The spring is aligned along the x-axis and is fixed to a peg in the table. Suddenly this mass is struck by another 2.00-kg object traveling along the x-axis at 3.00 m/s, and the two masses stick together. What are the amplitude and period of the oscillations that result from this collision?

If we double only the mass of a vibrating ideal mass-and-spring system, the mechanical energy of the system