Re: Animation = Translation + Vibration, But How?
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- Subject: [mg95192] Re: Animation = Translation + Vibration, But How?
- From: Alexei Boulbitch <Alexei.Boulbitch at iee.lu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:24:39 -0500 (EST)
Hi, Gidil,
there was a nice joke (though I would not take a risk of repeating it here)
ending up with a dialog: "But why?" "But how?". Did you mean it? :-)
To be serious, why not to take a well-known solution of a cantilever and animate it? It will then at least
behave as it should.
See for instance, Landau, L. D. & Lifshitz, E. M. Theory of Elasticity (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1986)
the chapter on bending of rods. Take the one with one end clumped, another loaded by a point force. You will
easily find it in problems to the chapter on small bending.
Just to give an example:
(* Begin of the example 1 *)
(* This is the solution I mean for a cantilever, length 1, clumped at its left end and *)
(* loaded by a force 0.1*Sin[t] at its another end *)
z[x_, t_] := x^2*(3 - x)*0.1*Sin[t];
(* This shows vibration of its free end. Play here with the option Thickness[n] *)
(* to display the rod as a rod, rather than a line *)
Animate[Plot[z[x, t], {x, 0, 1}, PlotStyle -> Thickness[0.02],
PlotRange -> {-1, 1}, Frame -> False, Ticks -> None,
Axes -> None], {t, 0, 10 Pi, 0.1}, Paneled -> False]
(* End of the example 1 *)
Try this. If you need to show a more complex motion you may again play with equation of motion of its left end
for which you can give any function.
For example, try this:
(* Begin of example 2 *)
(* this is the law of motion of the left end *)
x0[t_] := Cos[t/5];
(* This we already had in the previous example, but now the left end moves *)
z[x_, t_] := (x - x0[t])^2*(3 - (x - x0[t]))*0.1*Sin[t];
Animate[Plot[z[x, t], {x, x0[t], 1 + x0[t]},
PlotStyle -> Thickness[0.02], PlotRange -> {{-1, 2}, {-1, 1}},
Frame -> False, Ticks -> None, Axes -> None], {t, 0, 10 Pi, 0.1},
Paneled -> False]
(* End of Example 2 *)
You may want to attach any object to the oscillating cantilever end. Try this:
(* Begin of the example 3 *)
x0[t_] := Cos[t/5];
z[x_, t_] := (x - x0[t])^2*(3 - (x - x0[t]))*0.1*Sin[t];
Animate[Show[{Plot[z[x, t], {x, x0[t], 1 + x0[t]},
PlotStyle -> Thickness[0.02], PlotRange -> {{-1, 2.3}, {-1, 1}},
Frame -> False, Ticks -> None, Axes -> None],
Graphics[Disk[{x0[t] + 1, z[x0[t] + 1, t]}, 0.1]]}], {t, 0, 10 Pi,
0.1}, Paneled -> False]
(* End of the example 3 *)
.... and so on.
Finally, if you need to to have a self-standing movie, have a look into the today-posted discussion
Re: [mg95123] Manipulate, Export, .avi, forward run without the slider in the...
Have fun :-) , Alexei
GidiL wrote:
> Dear All!
>
> I created a cantilever in Mathematica (nothing fancy, a Graphics 3D
> object created with Polygon).
> The only thing that I want now is to simulate its movement. I thought
> it would be easy, but it's proving to be diabolically difficult.
> Boundary conditions: the cantilever should be fixed in one end, and
> allowed to oscillate in the other (the oscillations are predetermined
> by some simple trigonometric function).
> This system should be allowed to translate in space (a moving beam, so
> to speak).
> So it should be allowed to move in the X-Y plane and oscillate along
> the Z- axis.
>
> Moving it in the X-Y plane is accomplished with the Translate
> function. But how can I make it oscillate in a specific manner? How
> can I combine in one animation both movements?
>
> Any help would be greatly apprerciated,
>
> Gideon
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