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Quick check from College Physics, 16.5 Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator

Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator: quick check

You are observing a simple harmonic oscillator. Identify one way you could decrease the maximum velocity of the system.

Answer it in your own words before you look.

Answer
You could increase the mass of the object that is oscillating.

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From College Physics (1st edition) by OpenStax (Rice University), section 16.5, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Original at openstax.org. We split the solution into steps; the words, numbers and figures are the book's. OpenStax doesn't endorse this site.