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you want to describe the harmonic motion of a swing. You find out that it take 2 seconds for the swing to complete one cycle. What is the swing's period and frequency?
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you want to describe the harmonic motion of a swing. You find out that it take 2 seconds for the swing to complete one cycle. What is the swing's period and frequency?

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The 2 seconds that it takes tocomplete one full cycle
is the period of the motion ... 2 seconds .

The frequency is the reciprocal of the period . . . 1 / 2 seconds = 0.5 Hz.
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