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I want to learn more about the physics of a slinky.
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A slinky is an idealized model of a physical system that exhibits a type of non-linear behavior known as soliton propagation. Solitons are solitary waves, which means they have no beginning or end and move through space without dispersing. The motion of a slinky can be described by Newton's laws of motion and its dynamics can be modeled using the equations of motion for a particle in a potential field.