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The units in the animation are MKS (meters, kilograms, and seconds). The mass is 1 kg. The forcing function is f0*cos(omega*t+phi).
Note: setting the forcing frequency to the resonant frequency AND setting the damping to zero will result in a divide-by-zero.
By Robert Johnson, using the Physlet Animator and dataGraph classes from Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni.