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A simple harmonic oscillator consists of a 0.50 kg block attached to a spring. The block slides back and forth along a straight line on a frictionless surface with equilibrium point .x = 0. At t = 0 the block is at x = 0 and moving in the positive x direction. A graph of the magnitude of the net force
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