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center of oscillation

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center of oscillation [′sen·tər əv ‚äs·ə′lā·shən]
(mechanics)
Point in a physical pendulum, on the line through the point of suspension and the center of mass, which moves as if all the mass of the pendulum were concentrated there.


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Equation (3) tells us that during each time segment the motion of the block is harmonic with constant amplitude whose center of oscillation has been either shifted to the left or to the right of the equilibrium position by an amount [beta].
 
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