Incommensurate harmonic-oscillator orbit
ID: incommensurate-harmonic-oscillator-orbit
For two uncoupled harmonic oscillators with nonzero amplitudes and irrational frequency ratio , the orbit is bounded but not periodic. It winds quasiperiodically on a two-dimensional invariant torus; a common period would force the frequency ratio to be rational.
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