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Show that the motion of a particle represented by y = sinω t – cos ω t is simple harmonic with a period of 2π/ω.

Given:



Multiplying both the sides by



Writing we get,



Using the identities in equation above,





We get,




∴ angular velocity from above equation


∴ time period


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