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Simple Harmonic Motion Graphs

Here’s my attempt at animating 5 graphs for simple harmonic motion together in one page.

From left column:

v=±ωxo2x2

a=ω2x

From right column:

s=xosin(ωt)

v=xoωcos(ωt)

a=xoω2sin(ωt)

And here is the animated gif file for powerpoint users:

Simple harmonic motion graphs - displacement-, velocity-, acceleration- time graphs and more

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