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The simplest mechanical oscillating system is a mass attached to a linear spring subject to no other forces.
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Such a system may be approximated on an air table or ice surface. The system is in an equilibrium state when the spring is static.
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If the system is displaced from the equilibrium, there is a net restoring force on the mass, tending to bring it back to equilibrium.
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However, in moving the mass back to the equilibrium position, it has acquired momentum which keeps it moving beyond that position,
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establishing a new restoring force in the opposite sense. If a constant force such as gravity is added to the system, the point of
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equilibrium is shifted. The time taken for an oscillation to occur is often referred to as the oscillatory period. </p>
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<p>The specific dynamics of this spring-mass system are described mathematically by the simple harmonic oscillator and the regular
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periodic motion is known as simple harmonic motion. In the spring-mass system, oscillations occur because, at the static equilibrium
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displacement, the mass has kinetic energy which is converted into potential energy stored in the spring at the extremes of its path.
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The spring-mass system illustrates some common features of oscillation, namely the existence of an equilibrium and the presence of a
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restoring force which grows stronger the further the system deviates from equilibrium.</p>
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