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An over-damped door-closer will take longer to close than a critically damped door would.
Motion is neither aperiodic nor periodic The displacement decays to a negligible level after one natural period, Tn [with at most one overshoot of the system's resting position].
When = 1, the roots are real. The system is said to be critically damped. A critically damped system converges to zero as fast as possible without oscillating. An example of critical damping is the door closer seen on many hinged doors in public buildings. The recoil mechanisms in more For most guns Contact are also critically damped so that: they
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The behaviour of the system depends on the relative values of the two fundamental parameters, the natural frequency and the damping ratio. In particular, the qualitative behaviour of the system depends crucially on whether the quadratic equation for has one real solution, two real solutions, or two complex conjugate solutions.
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