3A75.10 Coupled Harmonic Oscillators

3A75.10 Coupled Harmonic Oscillators

A system of coupled oscillators is set up on an air track with a speaker driver on one end powered by a wave generator. Once the in-phase resonant frequency is found (in this set up it is .68 Hz) the out of phase frequency can be found by multiplying by 1.73.

 

Location: Air Track: D1-1; Mechanical Driver: E2-3; Function Generator: Q1-4