What is Simple Harmonic Motion?

What does the size of the restoring force depend on?

What does a graph of displacement against time look like?

What does a graph of velocity against time look like?

What does an acceleration against time graph look like?

What is phase difference?

What id the frequency of the SHM?

What is the Time Period, T, of the SHM?

What is the amplitude of an oscillation?

What does a graph displaying an objects kinetic energy and its potential energy when oscillating with SHM look like?

How can you work out the displacement of a ball travelling in a circle attached to some string?

What is the radius of a ball being swung on some string equal to?

Why is there a minus symbol in the equation a=-(2πft)?

Give two examples of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator.

What is the size and direction of the restoring force given by?

How can you investigate the mass-spring system?

How does changing the mass of the trolley affect they time period?

What is the relationship between the time period and the spring constant?

For a pendulum what is the relationship between the length of the pendulum and the time period?

What is the relationship between the mass and the time period?

What is the relationship between the amplitude of the oscillation and the time period?

What are free vibrations?

What are forced vibrations?

When is an object in resonance?

What happens when an object is resonating?

When in resonance what is the phase difference between the driver and oscillator?

What are some examples of resonance?

What are damping forces?

What is light damping?

What does a graph showing light damping look like?

What is heavy damping?

What does a graph showing heavy damping look like?

What is critical damping?

What does a graph showing critical damping look like?

What is overdamping?

What does a graph showing overdamping look like?

What do the resonance peaks for the different damping methods look like?

How can you demonstrate the effect od damping on a spring-mass system?