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Just as above, I await a non-mathematical answer to this question. Abductive 07:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC) Thanks all. Greglocock, your SHO example is 1-dimensional but of course you can have a periodic oscillator (such as a planetary orbit) in any orientation in space, you can have damped or forced harmonic oscillators, etc.