True or false: (a) For a simple harmonic oscillator, the period is proportional to the square of the amplitude. (b) For a simple harmonic oscillator, the frequency does not depend on the amplitude. (c) If the net force on a particle undergoing one-dimensional motion is proportional to, and oppositely directed from, the displacement from equilibrium, the motion is simple harmonic.
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Figure 14-29 shows a uniform disk that has a radius a mass of 6.00 kg, and a small hole a distance from the disks center that can serve as a pivot point. (a) What should be the distance so that the period of this physical pendulum is 2.50 s? (b) What should be the distance so that this physical pendulum will have the shortest possible period? What is this shortest possible period?
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