Speaker
Phuc Tran
(John Tyler Community College)
Description
The analytical solution to the simple harmonic oscillator requires a knowledge of calculus (even worse differential equation), so how does one teach it at the College Physics level where students only know algebra? In this talk I will present an iterative approach that is accessible to algebra-level students. This method can be implemented quickly in Excel. The iterative solution will be compared with exact solution for both undamped and damped simple harmonic oscillator.
Primary author
Phuc Tran
(John Tyler Community College)
