20SPRINGS, BILLIARD BALLS, AND A GUITAR STRING
This chapter applies the ideas and theory of the previous chapter to three specific examples. The first is a system of two masses and two springs hanging from a fixed ceiling, the second is a billiard ball collision, and the third is a guitar string modeled as a long line of particles connected to their neighbors with springs.
A few things will be different in this chapter. We’ll take a closer look at the approximate numerical calculation we have been doing, treating numerical issues in more detail than we have in previous chapters. We’ll examine momentum and energy conservation in the context of ...
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