reduction in motion of an oscillatory system through frictional forces From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In physics, damping is any effect that tends to reduce the amplitude of vibrations.[1]
In mechanics, the internal friction may be one of the causes of such damping effect. For many purposes the damping force Ff can be modeled as being proportional to the velocity v of the object:
where c is the damping coefficient, given in units of Newton-seconds per meter.
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