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This lecture covers the concept of passivity in mass-spring systems, focusing on determining energy functions, calculating transfer functions, and ensuring system passivity through feedback assembly. The instructor demonstrates the process with numerical examples and state representations, emphasizing the importance of pole and zero positions. The lecture concludes with a discussion on Lyapunov equations and conditions for passive systems, validating the theoretical results through practical exercises.