Consider a planar system of three identical masses and three identical springs. At equilibrium each mass is
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Consider a planar system of three identical masses and three identical springs. At equilibrium each mass is at the apex of an equilateral triangle. A spring links each pair of masses.
(a) How many displacement coordinates are there?
(b) How many normal modes are there?
(c) One of the normal modes is a basis function for the identity irreducible representation. Sketch this normal mode.
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