I write short stories and poems in my mother tongue Tamil and I admire the works of Carlo Rovelli and Fritjof Capra, so I decided to write a poem about physics involving the concepts of simple harmonic motion, simple pendulum forces (shown in Fig. 1) and energy.
References
1.
Carlo
Rovelli
, http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/∼rovelli/.2.
Fritjoff
Capra
, https://www.fritjofcapra.net/.3.
Image credit: Mike Run CC BY-SA 4.0
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