Open AccessLearning Mechanical Vibrations with Wolfram Mathematica
Author(s) -
Mario Lázaro
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
modelling in science education and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1988-3145
DOI - 10.4995/msel.2015.3522
Subject(s) - vibration , interpretation (philosophy) , software , computer science , simple (philosophy) , degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) , calculus (dental) , programming language , acoustics , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , medicine , philosophy , dentistry
Mechanical vibrations as subject can be found within many Engineering and Science Degrees. To achieve that the students understand the mathematics and its physical interpretation is the objective we should get as docents. In this paper we describe how to create a simple graphical model of a single degree of freedom vibrating system allowing us to visualize concepts like above concepts damping, resonance or forced vibrations. For that, we use the popular symbolic software Wolfram Mathematica with which, without an excessive programming complexity, we can obtain a very satisfactory visual model capable to move itself, controlled by parameters. In addition, the model incorporates the curve-response, something that links the mathematical results with realit