Category:Degrees of Freedom (Physics)
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This category contains results about degrees of freedom in the context of physics.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Degrees of Freedom (Physics).
Consider an oscillating system $S$ disturbed from equilibrium.
Definition 1
The number of degrees of freedom of $S$ is the number of normal modes of oscillation of $S$.
Definition 2
The number of degrees of freedom of $S$ is the number of independent variables needed to specify the configuration of $S$ at any time.
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