Damped Harmonic Motion

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Damped Harmonic Motion: Overview

In this topic, we will read about the damped harmonic motion in detail. We will also get information about damped force and learn the equation of damped oscillations. It also explains free and forced oscillations in brief.

Important Questions on Damped Harmonic Motion

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Explain free and maintained oscillations

 

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Differentiate between forced and maintained oscillations.

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Explain the maintained oscillations? Give an example.

 

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How you can demonstrate different types of oscillations?

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Differentiate between damped and undamped oscillations

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In which  case the amplitude of oscillations becomes too large?

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Describe briefly the types of oscillations:

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Explain why simple motion of pendulum stop after some time?

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Explain Maintained Oscillations.

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Name different types of oscillations.

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Define damped harmonic motion.

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Compare the effect of damping on the resonance vibration of sonometer and of the air column.

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A damped oscillator consists of a spring-mass system with mass 2 kg and spring of spring constant 10 N m-1. The damping force is given by F=-bdxdt where b=280 g s-1. The time required for the amplitude of the oscillations to reduce to one-fourth 14th of its initial value is: (Assume ln2=0.7)

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In an experiment to find the loss of energy with respect to time in the case of a swinging simple pendulum, the graph between the square of amplitude and time is best represented by

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The amplitude of damped oscillator becomes 13rd of the original in 2 s. Its amplitude after 6 s is 1n times the original. Then, n is equal to,

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The amplitude of a damped oscillator becomes 13rd in 2 s. If its amplitude after 6 s is 1n times the original amplitude, the value of n is

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A simple pendulum after some time becomes slow in motion and finally stops due to

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The equation  d 2 y dt 2 + bdy dt + ω 2 y = 0  represents the equation of motion for a