Mass and Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator JS Model

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written by Wolfgang Christian, Francisco Esquembre, and Colleen L. Countryman

The Mass and Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator mobile JavaScript model illustrates the forces and dynamics of a simple oscillator. This simulation uses the accelerometer on mobile devices to read the direction of the gravitation field g. You may, of course, need to lock the orientation of your screen to maintain a fixed view as you rotate your device. For use on computers without an accelerometer or for classroom use, the demo mode simulates a gravitational field in the y-direction.

The Mass and Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator mobile JavaScript Model was developed using version 5 of the Easy Java Simulations (EJS 5) modeling tool. Although EJS is a Java program, EJS 5 creates stand alone JavaScript programs that run in almost any browser.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).

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Horizontal Mass and Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator JS Model

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Published: August 22, 2016
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Mass and Spring EPub (beta)
An ePub containing the Mass and Spring with Accelerometer simulation.
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Last Modified: July 28, 2018
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4 ready-to-run examples are available

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Open Horizontal SHO with Accelerometer Source Code in Web EJS

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in One Dimension - Newton's Second Law = Force, Acceleration Education Practices - Technology = Computers Oscillations & Waves - Oscillations = Damped Oscillators = Driven Mechanical Resonance = Simple Harmonic Motion = Springs and Oscillators	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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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:: Wolfgang Christian
Keywords:: accelerometer, mobile device
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created August 22, 2016 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: January 5, 2024 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 22, 2016
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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4. The Physical Setting

4F. Motion

9-12: 4F/H1. The change in motion (direction or speed) of an object is proportional to the applied force and inversely proportional to the mass.

4G. Forces of Nature

6-8: 4G/M1. Every object exerts gravitational force on every other object. The force depends on how much mass the objects have and on how far apart they are. The force is hard to detect unless at least one of the objects has a lot of mass.

11. Common Themes

11B. Models

6-8: 11B/M2. Mathematical models can be displayed on a computer and then modified to see what happens.

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4. THE PHYSICAL SETTING

E. Energy Transformations

4E (9-12) #1. Whenever the amount of energy in one place or form diminishes, the amount in other places or forms increases by the same amount.

F. Motion

4F (6-8) #3. An unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed or direction of motion, or both. If the force acts toward a single center, the object's path may curve into an orbit around the center.

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Christian, Wolfgang, Francisco Esquembre, and Colleen L. Countryman. Mass and Spring Simple Harmonic Oscillator JS Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2016. Java (JRE) 1.5. 1 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14063&DocID=4461>.

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