UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Assignments on damped vibration

Module -1: Damped Vibration
Theoritical Questions:

1 a. Define free vibration and damped vibration.

b. Write down the differential equations for damped harmonic motion with proper explanation of all terms.
c. Solve the differential equation to find the instantaneous displacement of a damped oscillator.
d. Discuss the conditions under which the oscillations are over damped, under damped and critical damped?
e. Give a graphical comparison among the following: (i) simple harmonic motion (ii) over-damped harmonic
motion (iii) under-damped harmonic motion and (iv) critically harmonic motion.
2 a. What is the effect of damping force?
b. Prove that for under damped motion the amplitude of vibration decreases exponentially with time.
c. Show that the ratio of successive amplitudes of under-damped motion is constant.
d. What do you understand by logarithm decrement, relaxation time and quality factor of a weakly damped
oscillator? What are the relationships between them?
e. Show that the amplitude of a weekly damped oscillator reduces to half of its initial value in time t=τln2,
where τis the relaxation.
f. In under damped motion, show that power dissipation is directly proportional to the damping constant.

Numericals:

1 In a second pendulum, the amplitude falls to half of its value in 150 seconds. Calculate the Q factor.
2 The frequency of a tuning fork is 250 Hz and its quality factor is 4x104. Find the time taken to reduce its
energy to 1 8 th of its initial value.
3 The amplitude of an oscillator falls to 1 10th of its initial value after completing 2000 cycles. The frequency
of the oscillator is 200 cycles per second. Calculate (i) damping constant (ii) relaxation time (iii) quality
factor (iv) time required to fall its energy by to 1 10th of its initial value.
4 A massless spring of spring constant 10N/m is suspended from a rigid support and carries a mass of 0.1kg at
its lower end. The system is subjected to a resistive force –βυ. It is observed that the system performs
damped oscillatory motion and its energy falls to 1 times of its initial value in 50s. (i) What is the value of
damping constant? (ii) What is the value of Q-factor?
5 Show that in case of damped oscillation with a small amount of damping, the corresponding time period of
oscillation is higher than the time period of free oscillation.