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Driving, resonance and the frequency response

1.[2p]

Why is the steady state the only part of the answer that matters after a while?

Correct
The answer is: The complementary function decays whenever there is damping, leaving only the particular solution
The answer is: The complementary function decays whenever there is damping, leaving only the particular solution
The answer is: The complementary function decays whenever there is damping, leaving only the particular solution

2.[3p]

A lightly damped oscillator with ζ=0.02 is driven at its natural frequency. By what factor is the static deflection amplified?

CorrectNot quite: 25

3.[3p]

For ζ=0.2, at what value of ρ=ω/ω0 does the amplitude peak?

CorrectNot quite: 0.959

4.[2p]

What is the phase lag of the response exactly at ρ=1?

Correct
The answer is: 90 degrees, whatever the damping ratio
The answer is: 90 degrees, whatever the damping ratio
The answer is: 90 degrees, whatever the damping ratio

5.[2p]

The Tacoma Narrows bridge failed because the wind supplied a periodic force at the bridge's natural frequency.

The answer is: False
Correct

6.[3p]

An undamped oscillator with m=2 kg and ω0=5 rad s⁻¹ is driven at resonance by a force of amplitude 10 N. Its response is F02mω0tsinω0t. What is the amplitude, in metres, after 20 s?

CorrectNot quite: 10

7.[2p]

Above what value of ρ does a spring mount begin to isolate rather than amplify?

CorrectNot quite: 1.414

8.[3p]

Which statements about the frequency response are correct?

Select all that apply

Correct
Correct
Correct
The answer is: Well below resonance the response equals the static deflection and is in phase with the drive, Well above resonance the amplitude falls as $1/\rho^2$ and the response is in antiphase, For $\zeta > 0.707$ the amplitude curve has no peak at all

9.[3p]

Match each driving regime to the property that controls the response.

  • Well below the natural frequency

  • Close to the natural frequency

  • Well above the natural frequency

  • the mass

  • the stiffness

  • the damping

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Well below the natural frequency: the stiffness Close to the natural frequency: the damping Well above the natural frequency: the mass