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damped harmonic oscillator
Gabriel Fontinele
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The Tracker software serves to analyze the movement of a damped harmonic oscillator, as for example of a mass-spring system immersed in a fluid? Can I model the resistive force to fit the experimental data? If so, could you give me an example or help me do it?

Thanks in advance.


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Douglas Brown
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You really should spend some time looking at the many examples in the Digital Library Browser. There is one identical to what you are asking about plus many more. Look at the Tracker Home Library|Tracker Sampler collection, the ComPADRE Digital Library|Tracker OSP Collection, and the Shared Library collections. Once you've opened several collections, use the search function in the Digital Library Browser to find examples in specific topics.

There are also YouTube video tutorials on this and many other other Tracker topics.


>The Tracker software serves to analyze the movement
> of a damped harmonic oscillator, as for example of
> a mass-spring system immersed in a fluid? Can I model
> the resistive force to fit the experimental data?
> If so, could you give me an example or help me do it



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