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Ah, ok. That makes much more sense. I think my problem is that I wasn't actually envisioning the mass with its simple up/down motion, but rather focusing too much on the sine waves. Thanks!

A mass on a spring undergoes simple harmonic motion with amplitude A. a) In a time equal to three periods, what is the magnitude of the displacement of the mass? b) In a time equal to three periods, what actual distance did it travel? In the first part, I was at first trying to use an...