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Troy, Tia; Reiner, Megan; Haugen, Andrew J.; Moore, Nathan T. – Physics Education, 2017
The work describes an analogy-based small oscillations analysis of a standard static equilibrium lab problem. In addition to force analysis, a potential energy function for the system is developed, and by drawing out mathematical similarities to the simple harmonic oscillator, we are able to describe (and experimentally verify) the period of small…
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Energy, Motion, Physics