diff --git a/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/animator.rs b/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/animator.rs
index 0cac4401..42c42787 100644
--- a/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/animator.rs
+++ b/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/animator.rs
@@ -500,8 +500,7 @@ fn spring_value_raw(t: f64, damping: f64, stiffness: f64, mass: f64) -> f64 {
         // Underdamped
         let omega_d = omega * (1.0 - zeta * zeta).sqrt();
         let decay = (-zeta * omega * t).exp();
-        1.0 - decay
-            * ((zeta * omega * t / omega_d).sin() * (zeta * omega / omega_d) + (omega_d * t).cos())
+        1.0 - decay * ((omega_d * t).sin() * (zeta * omega / omega_d) + (omega_d * t).cos())
     } else if (zeta - 1.0).abs() < 1e-6 {
         // Critically damped
         let decay = (-omega * t).exp();
@@ -2838,19 +2837,22 @@ mod spring_duration_tests {
         //
         // damping=6, stiffness=120, mass=1 (the same "underdamped" preset
         // this file already uses for elastic_in / kf_anim_spring_underdamped)
-        // at t=0.8s: spring_value_raw(0.8, 6, 120, 1) ~= 1.043467 — 4.35%
-        // past the target, an order of magnitude outside any reasonable
-        // rest_threshold (default 0.5%). An author asking this spring to
-        // "finish at 0.8s" got a value nowhere near rest.
+        // at t=0.8s: spring_value_raw(0.8, 6, 120, 1) ~= 1.027616 — 2.76%
+        // past the target, well outside any reasonable rest_threshold
+        // (default 0.5%). An author asking this spring to "finish at 0.8s"
+        // got a value nowhere near rest. Reference recomputed when the
+        // (issue #220): the solver's underdamped branch fed the wrong
+        // argument to its sine term, so this captured value moved when that
+        // was corrected.
         let v = spring_value_raw(0.8, 6.0, 120.0, 1.0);
         assert!(
-            (v - 1.043467).abs() < 1e-5,
-            "captured red-phase reference value drifted: got {v}, expected ~1.043467"
+            (v - 1.027616).abs() < 1e-5,
+            "captured red-phase reference value drifted: got {v}, expected ~1.027616"
         );
         assert!(
-            (v - 1.0).abs() > 0.04,
+            (v - 1.0).abs() > 0.02,
             "red-phase claim: at t=duration the unscaled spring must still be far from rest \
-             (got diff {:.6}, expected > 0.04)",
+             (got diff {:.6}, expected > 0.02)",
             (v - 1.0).abs()
         );
     }
@@ -2867,7 +2869,7 @@ mod spring_duration_tests {
         let threshold = DEFAULT_SPRING_REST_THRESHOLD;
 
         // Green phase: the same (damping, stiffness, mass) that the
-        // red-phase test above showed is 4.35% off at t=0.8s without a
+        // red-phase test above showed is 2.76% off at t=0.8s without a
         // `duration` must now be within `threshold` of rest at t=0.8s.
         let v_at_duration = spring_value(0.8, &config);
         assert!(
diff --git a/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_a.rs b/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_a.rs
index 0eb5f7e5..d42a55bf 100644
--- a/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_a.rs
+++ b/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_a.rs
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ use rustmotion_core::css::style::{
 };
 use rustmotion_core::css::taffy_bridge::ConversionContext;
 use rustmotion_core::css::units::{Length, LengthPercentage as CLP};
+use rustmotion_core::engine::animator::spring_value;
 use rustmotion_core::engine::box_tree::{BoxKind, BoxNode};
 use rustmotion_core::engine::layout_pass::run_layout;
 use rustmotion_core::engine::paint_pass::{paint_tree, NoopDispatcher, PaintFrame};
+use rustmotion_core::schema::SpringConfig;
 
 fn test_frame(w: u32, h: u32) -> PaintFrame {
     PaintFrame {
@@ -131,3 +133,61 @@ fn opacity_layer_does_not_clip_own_outset_box_shadow() {
         "an opacity<1 layer must not clip the node's own outset box-shadow, got {above_faded:?}"
     );
 }
+
+// ---- underdamped spring step response must start from rest ----
+
+fn spring_config(damping: f64, stiffness: f64, mass: f64) -> SpringConfig {
+    SpringConfig {
+        damping,
+        stiffness,
+        mass,
+        duration: None,
+        rest_threshold: None,
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn underdamped_spring_step_response_starts_at_rest() {
+    // Shipped defaults named in the audit finding: damping=15, stiffness=100,
+    // mass=1 -> zeta=0.75 (underdamped). A step response that starts from
+    // rest has ~0 velocity at t=0; a wrong sine-argument formula produces a
+    // jolt of about 6.21/s instead.
+    let config = spring_config(15.0, 100.0, 1.0);
+    let h = 1e-5;
+    let v0 = spring_value(0.0, &config);
+    assert!(v0.abs() < 1e-9, "sanity: spring must start at 0, got {v0}");
+
+    let vh = spring_value(h, &config);
+    let slope = (vh - v0) / h;
+    assert!(
+        slope.abs() < 0.05,
+        "underdamped step response must start at rest (~0 initial velocity), got slope {slope}"
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn underdamped_spring_matches_the_analytic_closed_form() {
+    // Reference computed independently of the engine's implementation from
+    // the textbook closed form for an underdamped step response:
+    //   1 - e^{-zeta*omega*t} * [cos(omega_d*t) + (zeta*omega/omega_d)*sin(omega_d*t)]
+    let damping = 15.0_f64;
+    let stiffness = 100.0_f64;
+    let mass = 1.0_f64;
+    let omega = (stiffness / mass).sqrt();
+    let zeta = damping / (2.0 * (stiffness * mass).sqrt());
+    let omega_d = omega * (1.0 - zeta * zeta).sqrt();
+    let reference = |t: f64| -> f64 {
+        let decay = (-zeta * omega * t).exp();
+        1.0 - decay * ((omega_d * t).cos() + (zeta * omega / omega_d) * (omega_d * t).sin())
+    };
+
+    let config = spring_config(damping, stiffness, mass);
+    for t in [0.0, 1.0 / 60.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0] {
+        let expected = reference(t);
+        let actual = spring_value(t, &config);
+        assert!(
+            (actual - expected).abs() < 1e-6,
+            "t={t}: expected {expected} (analytic reference), got {actual}"
+        );
+    }
+}