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Mass-Spring system on an accelerating jet

Physics Asked by Nimrod Sadeh on January 9, 2021

Imagine a perfect mass spring system. If it’s put on an accelerating plane, how will the motion change? Is the plane’s acceleration like a driving/damping force, where:

$$F_{text{driving}} = text{mass} times text{plane’s acceleration}$$

One Answer

The acceleration of the plane will cause an offset in the motion of the mass/spring system; if it was centered on x=0 when the plane was stationary, its motion will now be centered around $x = -frac{mcdot a}{k}$ where $k$ is the spring constant, and $F = mcdot a$ is the force needed for the mass to accelerate with the plane. If the plane is accelerating in the +x direction, the displacement will be in the -x direction.

Apart from that there is no change - not to the frequency, not to the damping.

Answered by Floris on January 9, 2021

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