Spring Simulator

For a Differential Equations project, I created a simulation of a masson a spring system. Mass-spring systems with damping (friction) areoften difficult to visualize. I seek to make these results moreintuitive by letting a student interested in math or physics tweak theconstants and play with the spring that way. The user can physicallydrag the block with their mouse, or they can fine tune the mass,damping coefficient, and spring constant. They can also play with theforcing function, which can be either constant or sinusoidal. In thelatter case, the user can also play with the frequency of the forcingfunction – there\u27s even a graph of the response versus the frequency,so students can explore resonance. Various extra constants like thedamping ratio, period, and angular frequency are displayed at thebottom, for that curious student. Still, I think students not studyingdifferential equations will find it fun to play with the spring. Myhope is that harmonic oscillators become much more intuitive and funafter playing with this program