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1. Why can we ignore gravitational potential energy for the case of a mass on a spring? for simple harmonic motion

OpenStudy (anonymous):

|dw:1333336091582:dw| in horizontal simple harmonic motion, the line will be reference line and at reference line the gravitation potential energy will be zero,Hence we can ignore gravitational potential energy,But in the case of vertical motion this can not be neglected.. |dw:1333336399880:dw|

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