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The term "harmonic oscillator" is used to describe any system with a "linear" restoring force that tends to return the system to an equilibrium state. There is both a classical harmonic oscillator and a quantum harmonic oscillator. Both are used as toy problems that describe many physical systems.

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What affects the damping of a spring?

What variables affect the damping of a spring executing simple harmonic motion? What are the independent variables, and what variables would need to be controlled in an experiment? I'm attempting to …
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Investigating damped Harmonic Motion in a Spring?

I'm going to conduct an investigation into the dampening of a spring. Essentially, what specific factors could be investigated? Currently I'm planning to investigate the effect of changing the mass o …
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How to determine viscous damping coefficient of spring?

I'm trying to determine the viscous damping coefficient of a spring $c$. Read about it on Wikipedia here. The two equations which I have are: $f=-cv$ and $ma+cv = -kx$ I know the spring constant $k= …
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