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

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

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.

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 of proportionality, the average lifetime of the pendulum is (assuming damping is small) in seconds

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

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?

A damped oscillator consists of a spring-mass system with mass and spring of spring constant . The damping force is given by where The time required for the amplitude of the oscillations to reduce to one-fourth of its initial value is: (Assume )


The amplitude of a damped oscillator becomes one third in If its amplitude after is times the original amplitude then the value of is

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

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

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

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

A block of mass is executing under the influence of a spring of spring constant and a damping constant . The time elapsed for its amplitude to drop to half of its initial value is (Given, )

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.

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

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

The amplitude of damped oscillator becomes in . Its amplitude after is times the original. Then is equal to

The amplitude of damped oscillator becomes of the original in . Its amplitude after is times the original. Then, is equal to,

The amplitude of a damped oscillator becomes in . If its amplitude after is times the original amplitude, the value of is
