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noun:  In solid state physics, a particle's effective mass (often denoted ) is the mass that it seems to have when responding to forces, or the mass that it seems to have when interacting with other identical particles in a thermal distribution.
noun:  In a real spring–mass system, the spring has a non-negligible mass .


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