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  2. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    A familiar example of parametric oscillation is "pumping" on a playground swing. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A person on a moving swing can increase the amplitude of the swing's oscillations without any external drive force (pushes) being applied, by changing the moment of inertia of the swing by rocking back and forth ("pumping") or alternately standing ...

  3. File:Friedel oscillations in 1D.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Friedel_oscillations_in_1D.pdf (750 × 450 pixels, file size: 20 KB, MIME type: application/pdf) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  4. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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    A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, an ideal set of frequencies that are positive integer multiples of a common fundamental frequency. The fundamental is a harmonic because it is one times itself. A harmonic partial is any real partial component of a complex tone that matches (or nearly matches) an ideal harmonic. [3]

  5. 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.

  6. Complex harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    In physics, complex harmonic motion is a complicated realm based on the simple harmonic motion.The word "complex" refers to different situations. Unlike simple harmonic motion, which is regardless of air resistance, friction, etc., complex harmonic motion often has additional forces to dissipate the initial energy and lessen the speed and amplitude of an oscillation until the energy of the ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Rotational–vibrational coupling - Wikipedia

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    The motion of the circling masses mapped in a coordinate system that is rotating at a constant angular velocity Harmonic oscillation the restoring force is proportional to the distance from the center. The animation on the right provides a clearer view on the oscillation of the angular velocity. There is a close analogy with harmonic oscillation.

  9. Sympathetic resonance - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness. [1] The classic example is demonstrated with two similarly-tuned tuning forks. When one fork is struck and held near the other, vibrations are induced in the ...