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A child on a swing learns it without equations: push in rhythm and small pushes build to huge arcs. Push off-rhythm and nothing happens. That rhythm is the natural frequency ω₀, and matching it is resonance. Drive mx″ + cx′ + kx = F₀cos(ωt) at ω ≈ ω₀ and the steady amplitude spikes — sometimes catastrophically.