Coupled Air Carts
Two or more air carts are connected by springs on an air track. When this system is at resonant frequency, symmetrical patterns called normal modes appear. The normal modes are shown in both undriven and driven cases. In the undriven examples, the normal modes are found by placing the carts at certain distances from each other and then letting them oscillate. In the driven examples they are found by driving the system with a motor, and varying the frequency until the normal mode patterns appear. Both of these methods are shown for systems of two, three, and five coupled carts.
Comments (0)
It looks like no one has posted a comment yet. You can be the first!
You need to log in, in order to post comments. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up now!
- Created
- June 01, 2009 15:48
- Category
- Tags
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (What is this?)
- Formats
- H.264 Video (mp4), mov
- Additional Files
- Viewed
- 46752 times
More from MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group
Bell Labs Wave Machine: Reflection
Added 2 years ago | 00:01:00 | 14244 views
Bell Labs Wave Machine: Standing Waves
Added 2 years ago | 00:01:16 | 13029 views
Orbital Motion
Added almost 4 years ago | 00:03:00 | 40420 views
Double Pendulum
Added over 2 years ago | 00:02:29 | 25353 views
Relative Motion Gun
Added almost 4 years ago | 00:01:07 | 47850 views
Ring Falling in a Magnetic Field
Added over 1 year ago | 00:03:27 | 8342 views
