simple harmonic motion

American  

noun

Physics.

1. vibratory motion in a system in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement from equilibrium. S.H.M., s.h.m.

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simple harmonic motion British  

noun

1.  SHM.  a form of periodic motion of a particle, etc, in which the acceleration is always directed towards some equilibrium point and is proportional to the displacement from this point

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simple harmonic motion Scientific  

1. See harmonic motion

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Example Sentences

The gravity tunnel problem is used in teaching precisely because it produces such simple harmonic motion.

From Science Magazine

For physics, cover simple harmonic motion and waves.

From US News

But after weeks in the class, helping one another with Newton’s laws, friction and simple harmonic motion, they’d started to feel as if they shared the same carrel in the library.

From Time

The phase of a simple harmonic motion at any instant is the fraction of the whole period which has elapsed since the moving-point last passed through its middle position in the positive direction.

From Project Gutenberg

How can waves be discussed unless in terms of period, amplitude, frequency, and the like, that find definition in simple harmonic motion?

From Project Gutenberg