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Normal modes of three symmetrically coupled trapped masses

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Branch of physics Classical mechanics Lagrangian mechanics Small oscillation Generalized eigenvalue problem for small oscillations Degenerate normal modes from permutation symmetry
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For three unit masses with unit springs between every pair and one unit spring anchoring each mass to the origin,
M=I,K=4I−J,
(1)
where J is the all-ones matrix. The collective mode (1,1,1) has angular frequency 1, while the two-dimensional sum-zero subspace has angular frequency 2.

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