The Slinky Wilberforce pendulum: A simple coupled oscillator
Abstract
The Wilberforce pendulum is an effective classroom demonstration of coupled oscillations and the beat-like behavior that arises in weakly coupled tuned oscillators. We describe a simple and inexpensive version constructed from a Slinky spring toy and a soup can.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.4832196
- Bibcode:
- 2014AmJPh..82..254M