WOLFRAM|DEMONSTRATIONS PROJECT

Time Evolution of a Four-Spring Three-Mass System

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maximal time
10
number of time slices
24
initial
position/velocity mass 1
initial
position/velocity mass 2
initial
position/velocity mass 3

Coupled spring systems are fun and ubiquitous: in playgrounds, cars, and experimental physics lectures at universities. This Demonstration simulates the time evolution of three masses coupled with four springs. The left end of the first spring and the right end of the last spring are fixed.