SAMPLE PROBLEM PERIODIC MOTION

1. A string vibrates at a frequency of 20 Hz. What is its period?

2. A horizontal spring (K= 300 N/m) with a mass of 0.75 kg attached to its undergoing simple harmonic motion. Calculate the (a)
period, (b) frequency and (c) angular frequency of this oscillator.
3. A force of 500.00 N is used to stretch a spring with a 0.500 kg mass attached to it by 0.350 m (a) What is the value of the
spring constant? (b) Calculate the frequency of the oscillator.
4. A spring with a constant of 100 N/m vibrates at 25 Hz. What is the frequency of vibration of a spring with a constant of 400
N/m?
5. A pendulum period can be calculated as: T = 2π√𝐿/𝑔
Suppose you’re a teacher in physics performs a demonstration while riding a pendulum bob. He finds that 10 complete
oscillations on the pendulum ( 10T ) takes 4.56 seconds.
a. How long is the cable that physics teacher is riding?
b. What is the frequency of the pendulum’s motion?

6. The scale of a spring balance that reads from 0 to 15.0 kg is 12.0 cm long. A package suspended from the balance is found to
oscillate vertically with a frequency of 2.00Hz. (a) What is the spring constant? (b) How much does the package weigh?

7. A 7.00− kg mass is hung from the bottom end of a vertical spring fastened to an overhead beam. The mass is set into vertical
oscillations having a period of 2.60 s. Find the force constant of the spring.