Volume 10 Issue 3
Application of Hamiltonian Approach to an Oscillation of a Mass Attached to a Stretched Elastic Wire
Yue Wu
National Engineering Laboratory of Modern Silk, Soochow University, No. 1, Shizi Street, Suzhou 215006, China
Abstract
This paper applies Hamiltonian approach to a nonlinear oscillation of a mass attached to a stretched wire. Comparison of the obtained results with those of the exact solution shows that the approximate solutions are accurate and valid for the whole solution domain.
Keywords: Variational principle; Periodic solution; Amplitude-frequency relationship