Damped Oscillations

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Damped Oscillations: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Damped Oscillations, Damping Constant, Angular Frequency in Damped Oscillations & Amplitude in Damped Oscillation etc.

Important Questions on Damped Oscillations

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A particle is oscillating freely with a natural frequency ω0 and amplitude a. It is later subjected to a damping force proportional to its velocity and keeps oscillating with a frequency ω. Which of the following statement is true?

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A simple pendulum is set into vibrations. The bob of the pendulum comes to rest after some time due to 

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The amplitude of a damped oscillator decreases to 0.9 times its original magnitude is 5 s. In another 10 s it will decrease to α times its original magnitude, where α equals. 

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If a simple pendulum has significant amplitude (up to a factor of 1e of original) only in the period between t=0 s to t=τ s then τ 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 b as the constant of proportionality, the average lifetime of the pendulum is (assuming damping is small) in seconds

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Which of the following differential equations represents a damped harmonic oscillator?

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When a damped harmonic oscillator completes 100 oscillations, its amplitude is reduced to 13rd  of its initial value. What will be its amplitude when it completes 200 oscillations?
 

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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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The damping force on an oscillator is directly proportional to the velocity. The unit of the constant of proportionality is

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The amplitude of a damped oscillator becomes one third in 2 sec. If its amplitude after 6 sec is 1/n times the original amplitude then the value of n is

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An oscillator of mass 10 g is oscillating with natural frequency of 100 Hz. Under slight damped conditions, a periodic force, F=100cos20πt is applied on it. The amplitude of oscillation is approximately,

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The amplitude of a S.H.M. reduces to 13 in first 20 s. Then in first 40 s its amplitude becomes -

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When an oscillator completes 100 oscillation its amplitude is reduced to 13 of initial value. What will be its amplitude, when it completes 200 oscillation: - 

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Amplitude of a damped oscillator reduces to 0.9 times its original magnitude in 5 s. In another 10 s, it decreases to α times to its original magnitude. Find the value of  α .

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A block of mass 200 g is executing SHM under the influence of a spring of spring constant k=90 N m-1 and a damping constant b=40 g s-1. The time elapsed for its amplitude to drop to half of its initial value is (Given, ln12=-0.693)

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In the following a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason.

Assertion: In damped oscillations, the oscillator experiences both conservative and non-conservative forces.

Reason: In damped oscillations mechanical energy of oscillator decreases with time.

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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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To study the dissipation of energy student Plots a graph between square root of time and amplitude. The graph would be a -

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The amplitude of damped oscillator becomes 12 in 2 s. Its amplitude after 6 is 1n times the original. Then n is equal to

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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