Period of oscillation calculator
Oscillations and waves
Oscillations are called processes in which the movements or states of a system are regularly repeated in time. The oscillation period T is the period of time through which the state of the system takes the same values: u (t + T) = u (t). A wave is a disturbance (a change in the state of the medium) that propagates in space and carries energy without transferring matter. The most common are elastic waves, waves on the surface of a liquid, and electromagnetic waves. Elastic waves can only be excited in a medium (gas, liquid, solid), and electromagnetic waves propagate in a vacuum.
Period of oscillation
The period of oscillations is the smallest period of time during which the system makes one complete oscillation (that is, it returns to the same state in which it was at the initial moment, chosen arbitrarily).
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