PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS OF A PARTICLE NONLINEARLY SUPPORTED FROM TWO POINTS

  • Oh, Hye-Young (Department of Computer Science, Inchon City College)
  • Published : 2001.05.01

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a simplified model of a particle suspended elastically from two towers by two nonlinear elastic springs, with a restoring force similar to Hooke’s law under extension and with no resistance to compression. Numerical results are presented, showing the solutions can be either of the same period oscillation the forcing term, can be a subharmonic response of multiple period, or can be noisy periodic which is apparently chaotic. Multiplicity of periodic solutions for certain physical parameters are demonstrated.

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