AP Physics Chapter 10 Vocabulary
hooke’s law- ✅describes elongation & how the force is related to the
distance
✅
spring (restoring) force- F=-kx, where k is the spring constant and x is the
displacement of the spring from its unstrained length. The minus sign
indicates that the restoring force always points in a direction opposite to the
displacement of the spring from its unstrained length (newton’s law of
action & reaction).
elongation-✅
✅
angular frequency- because ‘w’ is directly proportional to the frequency f,
w is often called the
✅
period- the time required to complete one cycle for any object in simple
harmonic motion
simple harmonic motion- ✅
✅the maximum displacement from equilibrium position
amplitude ‘A’-
elastic PE-✅the energy that a spring has by virtue of being stretched or
compressed (kx^2/2)
✅
simple pendulum- a pendulum that consists of a particle mass ‘m’,
attached to a frictionless pivot by a cable of length ‘L’ and neglible mass
✅
physical pendulum- a pendulum of a rigid extended object
length ‘L’ for a physical pendulum is the distance between the axis at ‘P’
and the center of gravity of the object
hooke’s law- ✅describes elongation & how the force is related to the
distance
✅
spring (restoring) force- F=-kx, where k is the spring constant and x is the
displacement of the spring from its unstrained length. The minus sign
indicates that the restoring force always points in a direction opposite to the
displacement of the spring from its unstrained length (newton’s law of
action & reaction).
elongation-✅
✅
angular frequency- because ‘w’ is directly proportional to the frequency f,
w is often called the
✅
period- the time required to complete one cycle for any object in simple
harmonic motion
simple harmonic motion- ✅
✅the maximum displacement from equilibrium position
amplitude ‘A’-
elastic PE-✅the energy that a spring has by virtue of being stretched or
compressed (kx^2/2)
✅
simple pendulum- a pendulum that consists of a particle mass ‘m’,
attached to a frictionless pivot by a cable of length ‘L’ and neglible mass
✅
physical pendulum- a pendulum of a rigid extended object
length ‘L’ for a physical pendulum is the distance between the axis at ‘P’
and the center of gravity of the object
