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harmonic oscillator

physical system that responds to a restoring force inversely proportional to displacement
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harmonic oscillator

Summary

harmonic oscillator ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (673 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • harmonic oscillator's image is recorded as Animated-mass-spring-faster.gif[2].
  • harmonic oscillator's image is recorded as Simple harmonic motion animation.gif[3].
  • harmonic oscillator's GND ID is recorded as 4159128-8[4].
  • harmonic oscillator's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85058945[5].
  • harmonic oscillator's subclass of is recorded as physical system[6].
  • harmonic oscillator's Commons category is recorded as Harmonic oscillators[7].
  • harmonic oscillator's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 21909[8].
  • harmonic oscillator's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03m32[9].
  • harmonic oscillator's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph114653[10].
  • harmonic oscillator's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/simple-harmonic-oscillator[11].
  • harmonic oscillator's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/harmonic-oscillator[12].
  • harmonic oscillator's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as harmonic-oscillators[13].
  • harmonic oscillator's nLab ID is recorded as Harmonic oscillator[14].
  • harmonic oscillator's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as harmonisk_oscillator[15].
  • harmonic oscillator's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 136895[16].
  • harmonic oscillator's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["PhysicalEffect", "HarmonicOscillator"][17].
  • harmonic oscillator's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • harmonic oscillator's World of Physics ID is recorded as SimpleHarmonicOscillator[19].
  • harmonic oscillator's schematic is recorded as Amortecimento Sub Critico-3x-RIFE-RIFE4.0-30fps.gif[20].
  • harmonic oscillator's Larousse ID is recorded as divers/oscillateur_harmonique/187146[21].
  • harmonic oscillator's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 40934718[22].
  • harmonic oscillator's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Harmonic_Oscillator[23].
  • harmonic oscillator's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007550735005171[24].
  • harmonic oscillator's KBpedia ID is recorded as HarmonicOscillation[25].
  • harmonic oscillator's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C40934718[26].

Why It Matters

harmonic oscillator ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (673 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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