Lissajous figures
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Introduction
Summary
If you consider one oscillation along the x axis and another one along the y axis then the addition results in a two dimensional motion. The traces are known as Lissajous figures.
The animation illustrates several of these according to their frequency and their phase relationships.
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- To observe some Lissajous figures.
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