Simple harmonic motion

Abstract

The National Science Foundation GK12 Program of Division of Graduate Education Simple Harmonic Motion Introduction Simple harmonic motion refers to a body oscillating periodically about an equilibrium position. Familiar examples of such oscillations are a block attached to a spring, the swinging of a child on a playground swing, the motion of a pendulum, and the loudspeaker in a radio. If a body is experiencing simple harmonic motion, its displacement from its equilibrium position can be described by the relationship