Vibrational store

The energy in an object’s vibrational store changes when an object is oscillating about a point. Many teachers and schemes of learning ignore this as a store. One example where it may be useful is when describing a just-plucked guitar string: the string is alternately moving quickly and then stretching many of times a second; energy is constantly shifting between elastic and kinetic stores, it is simpler to describe it as a single vibrational store of energy.

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