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  2. 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: = shows the period of oscillation is independent of the amplitude, though in practice the amplitude should be small. The above equation is also valid in the case when an additional constant force is being ...

  3. 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]

  4. Balance wheel - Wikipedia

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    It is a weighted wheel that rotates back and forth, being returned toward its center position by a spiral torsion spring, known as the balance spring or hairspring. It is driven by the escapement , which transforms the rotating motion of the watch gear train into impulses delivered to the balance wheel.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Notice =, a homogeneous rod oscillates as if it were a simple pendulum of two-thirds its length. A heavy simple pendulum: combination of a homogeneous rod of mass m r o d {\displaystyle m_{\mathrm {rod} }} and length ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } swinging from its end, and a bob m b o b {\displaystyle m_{\mathrm {bob} }} at the other end.

  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 position.

  8. Quantum harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    In A–B, the particle (represented as a ball attached to a spring) oscillates back and forth. In C–H, some solutions to the Schrödinger Equation are shown, where the horizontal axis is position, and the vertical axis is the real part (blue) or imaginary part (red) of the wavefunction.

  9. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.