Restoring torque due to twist of torsion pendulum¶
A torsion pendulum is a simple harmonic oscillator consisting of a disk suspended by a wire. Rotating the disk through an angle in either direction introduces a restoring torque.
Links:
- Symbol:
tau- Latex:
\({\vec \tau}\)
- Dimension:
force*length
- torsion_stiffness¶
torsion_stiffnessof the pendulum.
- Symbol:
kappa- Latex:
\(\kappa\)
- Dimension:
force*length/angle
- angular_displacement¶
Pseudovector of angular displacement. See
angular_distance.
- Symbol:
theta- Latex:
\({\vec \theta}\)
- Dimension:
angle
- law¶
tau = -kappa * theta- Latex:
- \[{\vec \tau} = - \kappa {\vec \theta}\]