PE/FE Review – Vibrations Problem Solutions

The damped natural frequency, , is written in terms of the undamped natural frequency, , as. Problem # 3. Using Newton’s second law and with the . help of the FBD, the equation of motion is (1) Rearranging (1a) But (2) Also (3) Note that one can write . Thus one can write equation (1a) in the form (4) ................
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