Chapter 8 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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equation for a SHO in chapter 2. Thefunctionalform ofasimple harmonicoscillator fromclassical mechanicsis V (x) = 1 2 kx2: Its graph isa parabola asseenin theflgure on theleft. Anyrelativeminimumin a smooth potential energy curve can be approximated by a simple harmonic oscillator if the energy is small compared

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