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Damped Harmonic Motion

Damped Harmonic Motion

Damped Harmonic Motion

Illustrating the position against time of our object moving in simple harmonic motion. We see that for small damping, the amplitude of our motion slowly decreases over time.

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  • Under Damped
  • Critically Damped
  • Over Damped
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