Falling Coupled Oscillators & Trigonometric Sums
Abstract
A method for evaluating finite trigonometric summations is applied to a system of N coupled oscillators under acceleration. Initial motion of the nth particle is shown to be of the order T2n+2 for small time T and the end particle in the continuum limit is shown to initially remain stationary for the time it takes a wavefront to reach it. The average velocities of particles at the ends of the system are shown to take discrete values in a step-like manner.
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