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8 Furnaces, Pendulums and Oscillation

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In Chapter 2 we went through a detailed development of the Workforce-Inventory oscillator.  Although useful in its own right, that model is most important for the insights it provides into the process of oscillation.  In this chapter we review two additional models for different problems that share the same basic structure as the Workforce-Inventory model.  Each produces oscillations, and each has a special characteristic that requires special attention.