Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
17.3What the syllabus asks of you
- understand that a resistive force acting on an oscillating system causes damping
- understand and use the terms light, critical and heavy damping and sketch displacement–time graphs illustrating these types of damping
- understand that resonance involves a maximum amplitude of oscillations and that this occurs when an oscillating system is forced to oscillate at its natural frequency
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Chapter 17: Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
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All 8 questions on Damped and forced oscillations, resonance, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
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8 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.