Coupled Compass Oscillations Video Analysis Activity

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written by Jalves Figueira

This experiment explores the behavior of a pair of loosely coupled compass needles in air with weak damping. The needles are far enough apart that the magnetic interaction between their magnetic dipoles is much weaker than their interaction with the Earth's magnetic field. The resulting motion displays beats--when one compass is momentarily at rest, the other oscillates with maximum amplitude.

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Published: June 23, 2014

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Newton's Second Law = Interacting Objects - Newton's Third Law - Rotational Dynamics - Work and Energy = Conservation of Energy Oscillations & Waves - Oscillations = Coupled Oscillations = Damped Oscillators = Normal Modes	- Upper Undergraduate - High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Laboratory = Model

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: Jalves S. Figueira
Keywords:: beats, magnetic compass
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 23, 2014 by Douglas Brown
Record Updated:: June 28, 2014 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: June 23, 2014
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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