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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
11
Vibration and Waves
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11-1 to 11-3: Simple Harmonic Motion
11-4: Simple Pendulum
11-7 and 11-8: Waves
11-9: Energy Transported by Waves
11-11: Interference
11-12: Standing Waves; Resonance
11-13: Refraction
11-14: Diffraction

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 1
Q

If a particle undergoes SHM with amplitude 0.21 m, what is the total distance it travels in one period?

A
0.84 m0.84 \textrm{ m}
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This is Giancoli Answers with Mr. Dychko. so, a cycle could begin here, say at its maximum amplitude and it would travel back to the equilibrium position and then go a further distance equal to the amplitude again and then travel back and then return to its initial position and that's one full cycle. so that means it's traveled this amplitude four times, has traveled at once back to the equilibrium, once back to the equilibrium and then again to the farthest extent to the other side of equilibrium and then back to the equilibrium, then back to its initial position. so, that's four times amplitude, four times 0.21 0.84 meters is the total distance in one cycle.

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