Damped Vibrations

The decay from initial condition to equilibrium of an unforced second order system can be understood using the roots of the characteristic polynomial and the phase diagram.

The decay from initial condition to equilibrium of an unforced second order system can be understood using the roots of the characteristic polynomial and the phase diagram.

One Response to “Damped Vibrations”

  1. hrm on February 19th, 2017 @ 3:37 pm

    From an MITx user: Thanks so much for the mathlets - it took me a bit to figure out how to properly work them and what all the infomation meant, but they're great learning tools!

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