10.1

Damped Harmonic Motion

by Professor Mark Sutherland, University of Toronto.
http://thorin.adnc.net/~topquark/fun/JAVA/dho/dho.html
Control the initial amplitude and damping coefficient for a mass attached to a spring. Displacement, velocity and energy versus time are plotted.
Professor Sutherland has a collection of physics applets and tutorials at fun@learning.physics.

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