Teaching of the harmonic oscillator damped by a constant force: The use of analogy and experiments
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DOI: 10.1119/1.5044654
Abstract: A description of oscillations damped by a constant force, despite the importance of the phenomenon, is missing from secondary (i.e., high-school) and university physics textbooks. In this paper, a simple explanation of this type of… read more here.
Keywords: energy; constant force; energy loss; physics ... See more keywords