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Course: High school physics?>?Unit 8
Lesson 1: Introduction to simple harmonic motion- Intuition about simple harmonic oscillators
- Definition of amplitude and period
- Equation for simple harmonic oscillators
- Simple harmonic motion: Finding frequency and period from graphs
- Simple harmonic motion: Finding speed, velocity, and displacement from graphs
- Introduction to simple harmonic motion review
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Simple harmonic motion: Finding frequency and period from graphs
Problem
A student extends then releases a mass attached to a spring. A graph of the mass's displacement over time is shown below.
What is the period of the oscillation?