Let's look again at the mass-spring oscillator of §N.3.4, but this time without the driving force (which effectively decouples the mass and spring into separate first-order systems). The physical diagram and equivalent circuit are shown in Fig. N.31 and Fig. N.32, respectively.
Note that the mass and spring can be regarded as being in parallel or in series. Under the parallel interpretation, we have the WDF shown in Fig. N.33 and Fig. N.34.N.5 The reflection coefficient can be computed, as usual, from the first alpha parameter: