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AP Physics C: Mechanics
7.3 Representing and Analyzing SHM
7.1 Defining Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)
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A schematic of a container filled with liquid and a floating cylinder. A horizontal line represents the liquid surface, labeled with \rho to the right. A vertical rectangle representing the cylinder has total height L indicated by a vertical double-headed dimension arrow along its full length on the left. The lower portion of the cylinder is submerged beneath the liquid surface to an equilibrium depth h_0, indicated by a vertical double-headed dimension arrow on the right. The cylinder has a horizontal top and bottom of cross-sectional area A, with the label \rho_b positioned inside the upper unsubmerged portion of the rectangle. A downward vertical arrow to the right of the cylinder is labeled +z, indicating the direction of displacement. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
A cylindrical buoy of length \(L\) and density \(\rho_b\) floating upright in a liquid of density \(\rho\).
A uniform solid cylindrical buoy of length \(L\), cross-sectional area \(A\), and uniform density \(\rho_b\) floats upright in static equilibrium in a liquid of density \(\rho\), where \(\rho > \rho_b\). The buoyant force exerted on the buoy when submerged to a depth \(h\) has magnitude \(F_B = \rho A g h\). The buoy is pushed vertically downward by a small distance from its equilibrium position and released from rest at time \(t = 0\). Taking the downward displacement from equilibrium to be \(z\), which of the following pairs of expressions correctly gives the second-order differential equation of motion for \(z(t)\) and the angular frequency \(\omega\) of the resulting vertical oscillations?

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