Talk:Simple harmonic motion
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Great article! Very comprehensible! I like the example with the record turntable.
A pendulum DOESN'T exhibit simple harmonic motion, only periodic motion. The acceleration towards the center depends on the sine of the distance from equilibrium rather than the distance itself. I've never heard of this 'pulsation' explanation (I think you mean period)...
(The sentence in the article in question is best interpreted to mean that a pendulum approximates simple harmonic motion when the angles are small)
SHM points to this article. However, shm also stands for "shared memory" in computer science.
The formula for frequency is never directly and simply stated, which can be confusing. It can be solved for from the formula for omega and the information given, or from the formula for period and the information given, but I believe it is the article's role to show the formula directly. A discussion on what omega, in this context, really means, would also be useful. I do not know myself, and therefore cannot write it, but I am immensely curious.
