Modeling The Motion of a Spring
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Reflection
Mass spring systems can be seen in a lot of every day activities. From shocks in your car, trampolines in your back yard, mattresses that we sleep on, or on the news after an earth quake. There are a lot of devices that use mass-spring systems to make our lives better, more fun, and deliver information to us in a manner that is easier to compare and interpret.
Understanding how these devices work can teach us not only how to best use them, but also how the information taught in Trigonometry is used in a real world situation. By evaluating the amplitude, period, and frequency of these systems that we use we can better maintain, extract information, or even maximize the fun factor of these mass-spring systems in our lives.
It was nice to actually apply the Trigonometry that we've been learning to a real world problem. Doing problems out of a text book often don't give the material that real world connection that can help make things click. Even when text books use story problems it almost always feels like the story is fabricated to perfectly fit the current chapters material.
Understanding how these devices work can teach us not only how to best use them, but also how the information taught in Trigonometry is used in a real world situation. By evaluating the amplitude, period, and frequency of these systems that we use we can better maintain, extract information, or even maximize the fun factor of these mass-spring systems in our lives.
It was nice to actually apply the Trigonometry that we've been learning to a real world problem. Doing problems out of a text book often don't give the material that real world connection that can help make things click. Even when text books use story problems it almost always feels like the story is fabricated to perfectly fit the current chapters material.