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  2. Natural frequency - Wikipedia

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    Natural frequency, measured in terms of eigenfrequency, is the rate at which an oscillatory system tends to oscillate in the absence of disturbance. A foundational example pertains to simple harmonic oscillators, such as an idealized spring with no energy loss wherein the system exhibits constant-amplitude oscillations with a constant frequency.

  3. Effective mass (spring–mass system) - Wikipedia

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    The effective mass of the spring in a spring-mass system when using a heavy spring (non-ideal) of uniform linear density is of the mass of the spring and is independent of the direction of the spring-mass system (i.e., horizontal, vertical, and oblique systems all have the same effective mass). This is because external acceleration does not ...

  4. Wilberforce pendulum - Wikipedia

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    A Wilberforce pendulum can be designed by approximately equating the frequency of harmonic oscillations of the spring-mass oscillator f T, which is dependent on the spring constant k of the spring and the mass m of the system, and the frequency of the rotating oscillator f R, which is dependent on the moment of inertia I and the torsional ...

  5. Simple harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    A mass m attached to a spring of spring constant k exhibits simple harmonic motion in closed space. The equation for describing the period: T = 2 π m k {\displaystyle T=2\pi {\sqrt {\frac {m}{k}}}} shows the period of oscillation is independent of the amplitude, though in practice the amplitude should be small.

  6. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    When a spring is stretched or compressed by a mass, the spring develops a restoring force. Hooke's law gives the relationship of the force exerted by the spring when the spring is compressed or stretched a certain length: F ( t ) = − k x ( t ) , {\displaystyle F(t)=-kx(t),} where F is the force, k is the spring constant, and x is the ...

  7. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    A mass suspended by a spring is the classical example of a harmonic oscillator. A mass m attached to the end of a spring is a classic example of a harmonic oscillator. By pulling slightly on the mass and then releasing it, the system will be set in sinusoidal oscillating motion about the equilibrium

  8. Oscillation - Wikipedia

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    An undamped springmass system is an oscillatory system. Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.

  9. Elastic pendulum - Wikipedia

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    In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum [1] [2] (also called spring pendulum [3] [4] or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. [2]