Topic pack · Free notes + Premium practice
Oscillations
Tailored to OCR H556.
Revision notes are free. Premium unlocks the full question and retrieval-card bank.
Subtopics and study areas
- Recognise and use the defining relationships for simple harmonic motion.
- Describe energy transfers during an oscillation.
- Explain damping, forced oscillations and resonance.
- Recognise simple harmonic motion from acceleration proportional to and opposite displacement.
- Use T = 1/f and a = −ω²x.
- Describe energy transfers during an ideal simple harmonic oscillation.