Written test

The following plots represent position and velocity changes in time of one end of the bar in the twin pivot see-saw. 
    a) Which features do suggest you that this is not an harmonic motion? 

    b) Which kind of motion are you observing ? 

    c) Show in the plots position-time and velocity-time the region that describes the same half-oscillation. 


     
     
     
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