Damped Oscillations
Author:Embibe Experts
JEE Main/Advance
IMPORTANT
Important Questions on Damped Oscillations
MEDIUM
IMPORTANT
The amplitude of a damped oscillator decreases to times its original magnitude is . In another , it will decrease to times its original magnitude, where equals to

HARD
IMPORTANT
If a simple pendulum has significant amplitude (up to a factor of of original) only in the period between to, then may be called the average life of the pendulum. When the spherical bob of the pendulum suffers a retardation (due to viscous drag) proportional to its velocity, with as the constant proportionality, the average lifetime of the pendulum in (assuming damping is small) in seconds

EASY
IMPORTANT
When a damped harmonic oscillator completes oscillations, its amplitude is reduced to of its initial value. What will be its amplitude when it completes oscillations?

