Simple Spring Mass Damping

displacement

0

spring stiffness

1

mass

1

damping

0.1

release system

This is a simple spring mass damping problem. It allows you to adjust the stiffness of the spring, the mass size and the damping coefficient. The equation being solved is

m

..

x

+c



x

+mx=0

. The initial velocity is assumed to be zero and the displacement (the amount the spring is stretched) is adjustable.

Permanent Citation

Stephen Wilkerson

"Simple Spring Mass Damping"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SimpleSpringMassDamping/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: March 7, 2011