Why sine wave is the natural wave, why not something else?

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Why sine wave is the natural wave, why not something else?

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It depends on what you mean by ‘natural’

Sinusoids have the property that they are proportional to the negative of their second derivatives. This is analogous to how exponentials are proportional to their own first derivatives. They will show up in systems governed by (relatively) simple mathematics as a result.

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