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Mechanical examples include pendula ( with small angles of displacement ), masses connected to springs, and acoustical systems.

Other analogous systems include electrical harmonic oscillators such as RLC circuits.

The harmonic oscillator model is very important in physics, because any mass subject to a force in stable equilibrium acts as a harmonic oscillator for small vibrations.

Harmonic oscillators occur widely in nature and are exploited in many manmade devices, such as clocks and radio circuits.

They are the source of virtually all sinusoidal vibrations and waves.