PhysicsLAB: Test Scenario: Harmonic Oscillator Scenario

Refer to the following information for the next nine questions.

Given below is a graph of the position of a harmonic oscillator versus time.

What is the period of this oscillator?

What is the frequency of this oscillator?

What is the angular velocity of this oscillator?

What is the maximum amplitude of this oscillator?

What equation of motion describes the position of this oscillator as a function of time?

What will be the amplitude of this pendulum when t = 18.0 seconds?

What is the maximum velocity of this oscillator as it passes through equilibrium?

What is this oscillator's maximum acceleration?

If this oscillator was a 2-kg mass attached to the end of a slinky vibrating vertically in a two-story stairwell what was the spring's elasticity constant?