1.

The free vibration of an undamped system represents interchange of POTENTIAL___ and

KINETICS_____ energies.

2. A system undergoing simple harmonic motion is called a _HARMONIC____ oscillator.

3. The mechanical clock represents a _TORSIONAL____ pendulum.

4. The center of __PERCUSSION___ can be used advantageously in a baseball bat.

5. With viscous and hysteresis damping, the motion __CONTINUES___ forever, theoretically.

6. The damping force in Coulomb damping is given by _FRICTION FORCE____.

7. The __LOSS___ coefficient can be used to compare the damping capacity of different engineering
materials.

8. Torsional vibration occurs when a __RIGID___ body oscillates about an axis.

9. The property of __CRITICAL___ damping is used in many practical applications, such as large guns.

10. The logarithmic decrement denotes the rate at which the _AMPLITUDE____ of a free damped
vibration decreases.

11. Rayleigh s method can be used to find the _NATURAL____ frequency of a system directly.

12. Any two successive displacements of the system, separated by a cycle, can be used to find the
_LOGARITHMIC____ decrement.

13. The damped natural frequency can be expressed in terms of the undamped natural frequency as
_____.

14. The time constant denotes the time at which the initial response reduces by __36.8___ percent.

15. The term decays _faster____ than the term as time t increases.

16. In the s-plane, lines parallel to real axis denote systems having different _natural____ frequencies.\