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An air-track glider attached to a spring oscillates between the 10 cm mark and the 60 cm mark on the track. The glider completes 10 oscillations in 33 s. What are the (a) period, (b) frequency, (c) angular frequency, (d) amplitude, and (e) maximum speed of the glider?

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(a) When the object is oscillating about the origin, repeatedly going left and right by identical amounts it has a time period TT where the period TT is the time required for one complete oscillation or cycle. So, the given time t=33t=33 s is the time required to complete N=N= 10 cycles. In this case, the time period will be given by

T=tN\begin{gather*} T = \dfrac{t}{N} \tag{1}\\ \end{gather*}

Now, we plug the values for tt and NN into equation (1) to get TT

T=tN=33 s10=3.3 sT = \dfrac{t}{N} = \frac{33 \mathrm{~s}}{10} = \boxed{3.3 \mathrm{~s}}

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