Setting (*) mass times acceleration proportional to displacement gives a differential equation which when solved gives a simple version of this system's position as a function of time.
The dramatic drop in specific heat of atoms at low temperatures can be explained by treating the system as one of these. Describing one of these models with Schrodinger's equation shows the ground state energy of a diatomic molecule is half of Planck's constant times natural frequency, and thus can never be zero. In a classical instance of one of these, the Q factor shows how much energy is lost per cycle in this system, which for a simple one of these is zero. Setting (*) mass times acceleration proportional to displacement gives a differential equation which when solved gives a simple version of this system's position as a function of time. For 10 points, name this model resulting when Newton's second law is set equal to Hooke's Law, the simplest example of which is a frictionless spring.
The dramatic drop in specific heat of atoms at low temperatures can be explained by treating the system as one of these.
{harmonic oscillator} [Prompt on “{oscillator};” accept “{quantum harmonic oscillator}” before “{classical}” is {said.}]