This chapter is an in-depth study of harmonic motion. You are familiar with two examples of simple harmonic oscillators, namely, a pendulum and a mass on a spring. Now you will study several different kinds of harmonic motion, including underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped oscillatory motion, as well as forced harmonic motion and the motion of coupled harmonic oscillators. The techniques you will learn here are used in nearly every branch of physics.
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