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Real Spring: has limited elasticity (will eventually come to a rest position)

Ideal Spring: will not stop and will keep going from end to end

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Well, not quite. Even an ideal spring has to contend with air friction which will eventually cause it to stop. The formal definition of an ideal spring is simply one that has no weight, no mass, and no damping losses. In order, however, for a spring to do something, it has to do work, even if that something is in a vacuum. I'm not certain that even an ideal spring in a vacuum would oscillate forever, because you are imparting work (energy) to the object the spring is attached to.

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