Coupled Horizontal Spring Mass Oscillator

Coupled Oscillator Spring Mass Oscillator: State Space

Problem Statement

Two 4 Kg Weights are suspended between two walls. They are connected by a spring between them with a spring constant k2. They are connected to the walls by two springs k1 and k3 with k1=k3. m1 is a distance x1 form m2 and m2 is x2 from the wall.

Solution

Things we know

$m_{1}=5kg{\frac {}{}}$

$m_{2}=5kg{\frac {}{}}$

$k_{1}=50Nm{\frac {}{}}$

$k_{2}=100Nm{\frac {}{}}$

$k_{3}=50Nm{\frac {}{}}$

${\text{So now that we have are problem we need to start setting up the equations we need to solve it.}}\,$

${\dot {x_{1}}}={\dot {x_{1}}}$

${\ddot {x_{1}}}+{\frac {k_{1}+k_{2}}{m_{1}}}{x_{1}}-{\frac {k_{2}}{m_{1}}}{x_{2}}=0$

${\dot {x_{2}}}={\dot {x_{2}}}$

${\ddot {x_{2}}}+{\frac {k_{3}+k_{2}}{m_{2}}}{x_{2}}-{\frac {k_{2}}{m_{2}}}{x_{1}}=0$

${\text{Now we take these equations and put them in a state space model.}}\,$

${\begin{bmatrix}{\dot {x_{1}}}\\{\ddot {x_{1}}}\\{\dot {x_{2}}}\\{\ddot {x_{2}}}\end{bmatrix}}\,$ = ${\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0\\{\frac {(k_{1}+k_{2})}{m_{1}}}&0&{\frac {-k_{1}}{m_{1}}}&0\\0&0&0&1\\{\frac {-k_{1}}{m_{2}}}&0&{\frac {(k_{1}+k_{2})}{m_{2}}}&0\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}x_{1}\\{\dot {x}}_{1}\\x_{2}\\{\dot {x}}_{2}\end{bmatrix}}+{\begin{bmatrix}0\end{bmatrix}}$

${\text{Now we make the appropriate numerical substitutions.}}\,$

${\begin{bmatrix}{\dot {x_{1}}}\\{\ddot {x_{1}}}\\{\dot {x_{2}}}\\{\ddot {x_{2}}}\end{bmatrix}}\,$ = ${\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0\\{\frac {150}{5}}&0&{\frac {-50}{5}}&0\\0&0&0&1\\{\frac {-50}{5}}&0&{\frac {150}{5}}&0\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}x_{1}\\{\dot {x}}_{1}\\x_{2}\\{\dot {x}}_{2}\end{bmatrix}}+{\begin{bmatrix}0\end{bmatrix}}$

${\begin{bmatrix}{\dot {x_{1}}}\\{\ddot {x_{1}}}\\{\dot {x_{2}}}\\{\ddot {x_{2}}}\end{bmatrix}}\,={\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0\\30&0&-10&0\\0&0&0&1\\-10&0&30&0\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}x_{1}\\{\dot {x}}_{1}\\x_{2}\\{\dot {x}}_{2}\end{bmatrix}}+{\begin{bmatrix}0\end{bmatrix}}$

${\text{So using maple i was able to obtain the eigenvalues and eigenvectors.}}\,$

${\text{Eigenvalues.}}\,$

$\lambda _{1}=2{\sqrt {10}}\,$ $\lambda _{2}=-2{\sqrt {10}}\,$ $\lambda _{3}=2{\sqrt {5}}\,$ $\lambda _{4}=-2{\sqrt {5}}\,$