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    This document provides 3 physics problems related to damped harmonic oscillators. Problem 1 asks to show that the rate of change of total energy of a damped oscillator is equal to minus twice the damping coefficient times the square of the velocity. Problem 2 asks to obtain the work done by the damping force on an oscillator that starts with initial position and velocity and returns to rest at the origin after a long time. Problem 3 has two parts: (a) showing an overdamped or critically damped oscillator can cross the origin at most once, and (b) finding the maximum initial speed of a critically damped oscillator such that it does not cross the origin, given its initial position.

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    This document provides 3 physics problems related to damped harmonic oscillators. Problem 1 asks to show that the rate of change of total energy of a damped oscillator is equal to minus twice the damping coefficient times the square of the velocity. Problem 2 asks to obtain the work done by the damping force on an oscillator that starts with initial position and velocity and returns to rest at the origin after a long time. Problem 3 has two parts: (a) showing an overdamped or critically damped oscillator can cross the origin at most once, and (b) finding the maximum initial speed of a critically damped oscillator such that it does not cross the origin, given its initial position.

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    PH103 (Physics-I) Tutorial-IV (September 4, 2017) : 2 0 2 0 Du DT 2

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    PH103 (Physics-I) Tutorial-IV (September 4, 2017)

    [Note: Please ensure to complete leftover problems from Tutorial-III]

    1. For a damped harmonic oscillator, mx = kx x, or alternatively, x+2x+02 x =


    0, where, k = m02 and = 2m. Show that dUdt
    = 2mx2 , where, U is the total
    energy.

    2. A damped oscillator (with mx = kx x) has initial position x0 and speed v0 .


    After a long time, the mass m will come back to rest at the origin. Obtain the work
    done by the damping force.

    3. (a) Show that an overdamped or critically damped oscillator can cross the origin
    at most once.
    (b) A critically damped oscillator with natural frequency 0 starts out at position
    x0 > 0. What is the maximum initial speed (directed toward the origin) it can have
    and not cross the origin?

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