How to use the Damped Vibrations: Energy Tool

Setting Initial Conditions

• [Start] begins a trajectory using preset initial conditions.
• Clicking in the time series graph will set an initial value of x and start a trajectory.

Parameter Slider

• Use the slider to set the value of the the damping coefficient b .
• Press the mouse down on the slider knob for the parameter and drag the mouse back and forth, or click the mouse in the slider channel at the desired value for the parameter.

Time Series Buttons

• The buttons labeled
  [Energy]
  [Velocity]
  [Position]
  turn the time series graphs on and off.

Other Buttons

• [Pause] stops a trajectory without canceling it.
• [Continue] resumes the motion of a paused trajectory.