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Lissajous figures

Learning objectives

  • To observe some Lissajous curves.

If you consider one oscillation along the x axis and another one along the y axis then the addition results in a two dimensional motion. The traces are known as Lissajous curves.
The animation illustrates several of these according to their frequency and their phase relationships.

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