An LC circuit is analogous to a spring-mass system Updated 2025-07-16
Both are harmonic oscillators.
In the LC circuit:
- the current current may be seen as the velocity and containing the kinetic energy
- the charge stored in the capacitor as the potential energy
You can kickstart motion in either of those systems in two ways:
Spring-mass system Updated 2025-07-16
The simplest harmonic oscillator system.