Consider a spring-mass simple harmonic oscillator in one dimension. The mass of the particle is $m \text{ kg}$ and the spring constant is $k \text{ Nm}^{-1}$. At a given instant, the extension of the spring is $x \text{ m}$ and the speed of the particle is $v \text{ ms}^{-1}$. On the $x-v$ plane, if the graph of $v$ as a function of $x$ is a circle, then the correct option is:

  • A
    $k = 1/m$
  • B
    $k = m$
  • C
    $k = m^2$
  • D
    $k = \sqrt{m}$

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