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And this is what allows the construction of the so-called Wilberforce
pendulum in which, if the rotational inertia and the mass are adjusted
just so, you can see energy transfer between two modes of oscillation
(longitudinal and torsional). It's a wonderful, thought-provoking physics
toy.