Two Oscillators

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Two Oscillators
PHYSICS 1

• Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir,
  Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT
  Kharagpur, 721 302 India
• http//www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/phy1/

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Coupled Oscillators
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Normal Modes
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Mode Equations
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Center of Mass
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Relative Motion
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Phase Relations
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Solution
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Solution
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Example
Displaced to
Particles at Rest
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Example Continued
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Weak Coupling
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Continued
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Solution