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What is the spring constant?
This characteristic of a spring is measured in newtons per meter...
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What is wavelength?
The distance from one wave crest to the next...
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What is its equilibrium position?
An oscillating spring will achieve its maximum velocity at this point...
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What is Hooke's Law?
F = -kx
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What is frequency?
The number of wave crests (or troughs) in one second...
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What are different pitches?
Different frequencies of sound can be heard as this...
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What is the amplitude?
This variable does NOT affect the period of a spring's oscillation...
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What is its velocity?
A wave's wavelength divided by its period...
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What is the wave speed?
The amplitude of a wave will not affect this...
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What is 1/2kA^2
If you stretch a spring, this is the expression for its total energy at the instant of release...
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What is the medium?
The material through which energy is being transmitted...
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What is the cosine?
If a spring is stretched and then released at time zero, this trig function describes its motion...
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What is simple harmonic motion?
If the restoring force on an object is proportional to its distance from equilibrium, the object is exhibiting this...
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What is damping?
This describes energy being lost during transmission...
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What is resonance?
If energy is forced into a system at the system's natural frequency, this effect is achieved...
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