Consider the mass-spring system shown below. Simulate the following system.

The red circle denotes the location of the friction less hinge, and the blue squares denote the two masses.

Some comments

• In order to complete this lab, you will have to write your code from scratch. You are of course welcome to draw inspiration from the code that you have worked with (and written) for other labs.
• You’ll also need to come up 1) the initial conditions and 2) simulation parameters:
  • initial location of the two point masses;
  • rest lengths of the two springs;
  • spring and damping coefficients for these springs; and
  • mass values for the two point masses.

Simulation in action

For the video that you see below:
- both masses are set to $1$;
- the rest lengths for both springs is $10$;
- the spring and damping coefficients for both springs are $10$ and $0.2$, respectively; and
- the initial point masses locations are $(10,10)$ and $(20,-2)$, respectively.

Furthermore:
- The springs are not shown;
- The first spring is connected to a friction less hinge at $(0,0)$ at one end and the red mass at the other end; and
- The second spring is connected to the red mass on one end and the green mass on the other end.