The aim of the present work is to study the periodic structure of the Wilberforce pendulum under the effects of certain dependent perturbations. We use as a mathematical tool the averaging theory of dynamical systems by providing a system of two nonlinear equations whose simple zeros are linked to periodic solutions of the perturbed system.
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