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Mechanical Oscillations

Problem 4.83

A ball of mass mm can perform undamped harmonic oscillations about the point x=0x=0 with natural frequency ω0\omega_{0}. At the moment t=0,t=0, when the ball was in equilibrium, a force Fx=F0cosωtF_{x}=F_{0} \cos \omega t coinciding with the xx axis was applied to it. Find the law of forced oscillation x(t)x(t) for that ball.

Reveal Answer
x=F0/mω2ω02(cosω0tcosωt)x=\frac{F_{0} / m}{\omega^{2}-\omega_{0}^{2}}\left(\cos \omega_{0} t-\cos \omega t\right)