reflection

Chain of masses and springs, or atoms.

Chain of atoms, cutoff frequency, decomposition into stationnaty waves, forced oscillations, Propagation, Réflection

By Benoît Delcourt

In the case also of a chain of masses linked by springs, , masses are attracted by their neighbors by harmonic forces (of the type -kx, k being the constant of the springs, and x its strain) . This is the classic model of a chain of atoms in a solid,...

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