Practice - Effect of Damping
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Practice Questions
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What is damping in mechanical systems?
💡 Hint: Think about why vibrations might decrease over time.
Name one type of damping.
💡 Hint: Recall the terms we discussed.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of damping oscillates with decreasing amplitude?
💡 Hint: Think about how the amplitude behaves over time.
True or False: Critically damped systems oscillate.
💡 Hint: Recall how these systems behave when disturbed.
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Challenge Problems
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Calculate the damping ratio for a mass-spring system with mass 5 kg, spring constant 200 N/m, and damping coefficient 10 Ns/m.
💡 Hint: Use the formula for the damping ratio.
Discuss how you would design a damping system for a tall building in an earthquake-prone area.
💡 Hint: Consider the types of damping systems we discussed.
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