simple harmonic motion

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.

simple harmonic motion

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

simple harmonic motion

1. See harmonic motion

Example Sentences

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

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For physics, cover simple harmonic motion and waves.

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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.

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The amplitude of a simple harmonic motion is the range on one side or the other of the middle point of the course.

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Rotational motion leads naturally to a discussion of centripetal force, and this in turn is simple harmonic motion.

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