Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Simple harmonic oscillator

Simple harmonic oscillator
Voting period ends on 18 May 2011 at 11:50:05 (UTC)
 * Reason:A simple, yet effective animated demonstration of a simple harmonic oscillator.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Simple harmonic motion, Harmonic oscillator, Effective mass (spring-mass system), Sine wave, Oscillation, Vibration
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Sciences/Mathematics
 * Creator:Eio


 * Support as nominator --— James (Talk • Contribs) • 9:50pm • 11:50, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose' -- Effective in illustrating the phenomenon but lacks sophistication for reaching the FP bar. Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:29, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Can it be made to be a little slower? It hurts my eyes to watch...  Jujutacular  talk 23:58, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose Doesn't actually illustrate much about simple harmonic oscillators in my (pretty well informed) view. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. I am not qualified to comment on the science, but I certainly agree with Alvesgaspar's view of the sophistication of the diagram. Really lacks the umph. J Milburn (talk) 11:33, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. The opposes above seem to be for aesthetic reasons, but they don't give any specific suggestions. I would like to make some specific suggestions for how this picture might be improved:
 * Slow down the mass.
 * Include graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration versus time. (It may be better to rotate the picture so that the mass is moving sideways, then stack the picture of the mass on top of the graphs.)
 * Include graphs of kinetic and potential energy versus time.
 * Include a picture of the motion of the mass in phase space.
 * Including all of these might be too much. But hopefully these ideas give you a place to start. Ozob (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 01:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)