ABSTRACT
D damped oscillations Oscillations in which the amplitude decreases over the course of time t. The decrease is caused by a loss of energy in the oscillations due to friction and/or other mechanisms. The simplest model of damped oscillations is one-dimensional damped harmonic oscillations, which are described by the following second order differential equation:
M dx2
dt2 +R
dx
dt + Sx = 0 .
