Vibrating Systems: Simple Harmonic Motion
Vibrating Systems: Simple Harmonic Motion
Vibrating Systems: Simple Harmonic Motion
Vibrating Systems
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Vibrating Systems
Sound is caused by vibrating objects or media. In this section, we study somewhat overly simplified, ideal structures to gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts of vibrating systems.
Figure 1: An ideal mass-spring system. System equation: This second-order differential equation has solutions of the form
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is the characteristic (or natural) angular frequency of the system. and are determined by the initial displacement and velocity.
There are no losses in the system, so it will oscillate forever. 4. Energy in the Ideal Mass-Spring System: The potential energy ( compressing the spring: The kinetic energy ( ) of the ideal mass-spring system is equal to the work done stretching or .
The total energy of the ideal mass-spring system is constant: At the extremes of its displacement, the mass is at rest and has no kinetic energy. At the same time, the spring is maximally compressed or stretched, and thus stores all the mechanical energy of the system as potential energy. When the mass is in motion and reaches the equilibrium position of the spring, the mechanical energy of the system has been completely converted to kinetic energy. All vibrating systems consist of this interplay between an energy storing component and an energy carrying (``massy'') component.
Damping
1. The Ideal Mechanical Resistance: Force due to mechanical resistance or viscosity is typically approximated as being proportional to velocity: 2. The Ideal Mass-Spring-Damper System:
Figure 2: An ideal mass-spring-damper system. System equation: This second-order differential equation has solutions of the form
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Figure 3: A decaying sinusoid. is a decay constant and is the characteristic (or natural) angular
frequency of the system. and are determined by the initial displacement and velocity. The natural frequency is lower than that of the mass-spring system ( ).
where is the sampling period. In the frequency-domain, the FD approximation is defined by the mapping:
where is the Laplace Transform frequency variable and is the -Transform frequency variable. The FD approximation does not alias, maps to , but warps poles and zeros in potentially undesireable ways. The Matlab example, msd_finite.m, demonstrates the use the finite difference approach to simulate the motion of the mass-spring-damper system.
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where
to
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provides one degree of freedom in mapping a particular frequency on the particular location on the unit circle in the
axis in the
Figure 4: The Helmholtze Resonator and its mechanical correlate. In the ``low-frequency limit'', an open tube is a direct acoustic correlate to the mechanical mass. In the ``low-frequency limit'', a cavity is a direct acoustic correlate to the mechanical spring. Using Newton's Second Law to model the air mass in the tube and Hooke's Law for fluids to model the compressibility of the air cavity, a sinusoidal solution can be found with natural frequency , where is the speed of sound in air, is the cross-sectional area of the tube, is the length of the tube, and is the volume of the cavity.
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Figure 5: A one-mass, two-spring system: Longitudinal motion. The net restoring force on the mass: System natural frequency: 2. Transverse Motion (along y-axis):
Figure 6: A one-mass, two-spring system: Vertical motion. If the springs are initially stretched a great deal from their relaxed length (but not distorted), the vibration frequency is nearly the same as for longitudinal vibrations. If the springs are initially stretched very little from their relaxed length, the ``natural'' frequency is much lower and the vibrations are nonlinear (nonsinusoidal) for all but the smallest of -axis displacements.
Natural frequencies:
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