Enhanced Locomotive Piston Simulation
This simulation demonstrates a piston in a locomotive cylinder moving with simple harmonic motion. The piston has a stroke (twice the amplitude) and moves with adjustable angular frequency. The graph shows the position-time relationship.
(Amplitude: 0.5 m)
(0.53 Hz)
Maximum Piston Speed: 100.00 m/min
(1.67 m/s)
Time (s)
Position (cm)
Physics Formulas
Amplitude (A) = Stroke / 2 = 0.5 m
Maximum speed: vmax = A × ω = 100.00 m/min
Period (T) = 2π/ω = 1.88 s
Frequency (f) = ω/2π = 0.53 Hz
