Unit: Oscillations

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In simple harmonic motion, velocity varies sinusoidally with time and depends on position in a specific way.

Velocity as a Function of Time

A property of SHM is that the velocity will be a quarter period (T/4)(T/4) ahead of the displacement. We can observe this as a shift in the position function to the left by T/4T/4. It is also scaled by ω\omega so that it has a max amplitude Av=AωA_v=A\omega.

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