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Vibrations of masses coupled by elastic forces are an ubiquitous class of mechanical systems. As the first and most simple system of vibrating mass points, we consider the free vibration of two mass points, fixed to two walls by springs of equal spring constant.
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Greiner, W. (2010). Vibrations of Coupled Mass Points. In: Classical Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03434-3_7
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