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Example 1
a) Calculate the damping ratio of a second order system that provides an overshoot
percentage of 18%?
%OS
−ln ( )
100 1.7148
ζ= = =0.4791
√ 2 2 %OS 3.5791
π +ln ( )
100
Example 2
Calculate the natural frequency of a second order system that has damped frequency
of 4 rad/sec and damping ratio of 0.4. Specify the response type, provided that the
input was a unit step
Answer
ωd 4
ω n= = =4.3644 rad / sec
√1−ζ √1−0.42
2