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Sinusoidal Motion

There is one sort of periodic behaviour that is mathematically the simplest possible kind. This is the ``sinusoidal'' motion shown in Fig. 13.1(e), so called because one realization is the sine function,  $\sin(x)$. It is easiest to see this by means of a crude mechanical example.