PhysicsCode 9702
Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- understand that damping is produced whenever a resisting force is applied to a system in oscillation
- understand and apply the labels light, critical and heavy damping, and sketch displacement–time graphs that illustrate each of these damping types
- understand that resonance means the amplitude of oscillations reaches a maximum, which happens when an oscillating system is driven to vibrate at its natural frequency