Playground physics at its finest! Kids pushing each other on swings are unwittingly conducting experiments in natural frequency and resonance. Push at just the right timing (the swing's natural frequency), and you get maximum height with minimal effort. Push at the wrong time, and you're fighting physics itself. That childhood intuition of "when to push" is basically a crash course in oscillatory mechanics - no differential equations required. Who said you needed a fancy degree to understand harmonic motion?
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