The Equation of Motion for Taut-Line Buzzers
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| author | Gerra, Alexander J. Jones, Courtney C. Dillavou, Sam Hanlan, Jesse M. Radzio, Julia Arratia, Paulo E. Durian, Douglas J. |
| author_facet | Gerra, Alexander J. Jones, Courtney C. Dillavou, Sam Hanlan, Jesse M. Radzio, Julia Arratia, Paulo E. Durian, Douglas J. |
| contents | Equations of motion are developed for the oscillatory rotation of a disk suspended between twisted strings kept under tension by a hanging mass, to which additional forces may be applied. In the absence of forcing, damped harmonic oscillations are observed to decay with an exponential time envelope for two different string types. This is consistent with damping caused by string viscosity, rather than air turbulence, and may be quantified in terms of a quality factor. To test the proposed equation of motion and model for viscous damping within the string, we measure both the natural oscillation frequency and the quality factor for widely varied values of string length, string radius, disk moment of inertia, and hanging mass. The data are found to scale in good accord with predictions. A variation where rotational kinetic energy is converted back and forth to spring potential energy is also discussed. |
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| spellingShingle | The Equation of Motion for Taut-Line Buzzers Gerra, Alexander J. Jones, Courtney C. Dillavou, Sam Hanlan, Jesse M. Radzio, Julia Arratia, Paulo E. Durian, Douglas J. Soft Condensed Matter Equations of motion are developed for the oscillatory rotation of a disk suspended between twisted strings kept under tension by a hanging mass, to which additional forces may be applied. In the absence of forcing, damped harmonic oscillations are observed to decay with an exponential time envelope for two different string types. This is consistent with damping caused by string viscosity, rather than air turbulence, and may be quantified in terms of a quality factor. To test the proposed equation of motion and model for viscous damping within the string, we measure both the natural oscillation frequency and the quality factor for widely varied values of string length, string radius, disk moment of inertia, and hanging mass. The data are found to scale in good accord with predictions. A variation where rotational kinetic energy is converted back and forth to spring potential energy is also discussed. |
| title | The Equation of Motion for Taut-Line Buzzers |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19285 |