Consider a planar system of three identical masses and three identical springs. At equilibrium each mass is

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Consider a planar system of three identical masses and three identical springs. At equilibrium each mass is at the apex of an equilateral triangle. A spring links each pair of masses.

(a) How many displacement coordinates are there?

(b) How many normal modes are there?

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(c) One of the normal modes is a basis function for the identity irreducible representation. Sketch this normal mode.

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