A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains into the air. Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom. Can an atom vibrate in the ...

A wheeled cart with springs attached oscillates on a track. A motion detector connected to a computer helps graph the cart's motion. Knowledge of Logger Pro is essential. If the graph of cart motion ...