damped
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1. damped - Adjective
2. damped - Verb
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of Damp
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A damped harmonic oscillator can be: *Overdamped (ζ > 1): The system returns ( exponentially decays ) to steady state without oscillating.
A resonant circuit by itself is "almost" an oscillator; it can store energy in the form of electronic oscillations if excited, but because it has electrical resistance and other losses the oscillations are damped and decay to zero.
Each spark across the spark gap produces a pulse of damped sinusoidal high voltage at the output terminal of the coil.
For example, paper is light and typically well damped, but is not stiff; metal may be stiff and light, but it usually has poor damping; plastic can be light, but typically, the stiffer it is made, the poorer the damping.
Heavily damped oscillators tend to have broad linewidths, and respond to a wider range of driving frequencies around the resonant frequency.
Chinese-style crash cymbals in use Crash cymbals are usually damped by pressing them against the player's body.