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A harmonic model on explicit data: the sinusoid, its least period, the conserved energy and the phase ellipse checked at ,
A worked check of the harmonic model at the declared data m=1 kg, k=4 N/m, datum (0, 0 m, 1 m/s): the displayed sinusoid is the unique maximal motion, its amplitude and phase, least period, frequency, conserved energy and phase ellipse are computed from the general theorem, and the energy identity is verified directly. The item asserts no measured value and no claim that a real oscillator realizes the model.
Example
Declare the harmonic model of The harmonic (linear restoring) model: a declared linear force law with parameter with the data time window and configuration domain , and the datum at The claim checked below is that the curve is the unique maximal motion of the model with this datum, that its least positive period is seconds, that its energy is the constant joule, and that its phase curve is the ellipse in the numerical SI phase coordinates and of The phase plane of a one-dimensional model: phase curves, the energy function and its level sets, and turning points. All coefficient calculations below use these numerical coordinates and ; equivalently the physical ellipse is .
Verification
Proof technique: direct; read the general theorem at the declared data, compute the coefficients, and verify the displayed identities by differentiation and substitution.
Given: The harmonic model with kg, kg/s, the datum , and the curve .
[L1] Model and general theory (The harmonic (linear restoring) model: a declared linear force law with parameter , The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves, Existence, uniqueness and conservation of energy for a one-dimensional conservative model: phase curves lie in energy level sets and the velocity is determined by the position and energy up to sign): the model has , energy , undamped frequency , and every motion has the form with , , amplitude , conserved energy , least period if , and phase curve contained in, and filling, the ellipse .
[L2] Values and derivatives (The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine, The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine, Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi, The zero sets of sine and cosine and the least positive common period 2 pi): , , , , , and , for all .
[L3] Dimensions are read by Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework: , , so .
The frequency is by [L1] and [L3], and , m. By clause 1 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves the curve is the unique maximal motion with the declared datum, defined on .
Amplitude and phase: m; taking gives and by [L2], so clause 2 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves gives , the displayed curve.
Period and frequency: , so by clause 3 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves the least positive period is s, and the frequency is cycles per second; indeed by [L2].
Energy: by clause 4 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves, J, constant in . Directly, with by [L2], using [L1] and the Pythagorean identity of [L2].
Phase ellipse: with and , the ellipse of clause 4 is ; the phase curve satisfies by [L2], and by clause 4 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves it fills the ellipse; the amplitude m is attained at , , where .
Remarks
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What the check exhibits. The data produce the motion with exact period s, energy J and phase ellipse ; the check exercises clause 1-4 of The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves and the conservation and level-set statements of Existence, uniqueness and conservation of energy for a one-dimensional conservative model: phase curves lie in energy level sets and the velocity is determined by the position and energy up to sign on one motion.
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Scope. The values kg and N/m are declared data of this computation; no measured value is asserted, and no real spring is claimed to obey the linear law in any regime.
Depends on
The harmonic (linear restoring) model: a declared linear force law with parameter
The one-dimensional force models: data, motions, phase system, potential presentation, energy and equilibria
The phase plane of a one-dimensional model: phase curves, the energy function and its level sets, and turning points
The motions of the harmonic model are the sinusoids : amplitude and phase, the least period, the conserved energy and the elliptical phase curves
Existence, uniqueness and conservation of energy for a one-dimensional conservative model: phase curves lie in energy level sets and the velocity is determined by the position and energy up to sign
The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine
The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi
The zero sets of sine and cosine and the least positive common period 2 pi
Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework
The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- K. K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics, Part CM: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 5.1, Eqs. (5.1)-(5.4), chapter pages 1-2 (PDF pages 87-88): the harmonic oscillator solution in amplitude-phase form and the conserved energy kappa A^2/2
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, January 2015 printing), Section 1.2.4, Example 1, printed page 5 (PDF page 11): the simple harmonic oscillator with conserved energy