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Simple harmonic motion in springs

I know for a pendulum there's just a simple gravitational potential energy -> kinetic energy. But what happens in springs where there's gravitational, kinetic and elastic potential energy during oscillations? How do you calculate the elastic potential energy?

Thank you
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Original post by LeaX
I know for a pendulum there's just a simple gravitational potential energy -> kinetic energy. But what happens in springs where there's gravitational, kinetic and elastic potential energy during oscillations? How do you calculate the elastic potential energy?

Thank you


Im not sure this helps, but have a read through this:
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And the formula for the elastic strain energy is on the unit 1 formula sheet of edexcel, do you take edexcel exams?


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Original post by jtbteddy
Im not sure this helps, but have a read through this:
ImageUploadedByStudent Room1399991766.266237.jpg

And the formula for the elastic strain energy is on the unit 1 formula sheet of edexcel, do you take edexcel exams?


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Thank you so much. :smile: That was just what I wanted. I'm on OCR. :smile:

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