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A mass weighting 48 lbs stretches a spring 6 inches. The mass is in a medium that exerts a viscous resistance of 27 lbs when the mass has a
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A mass weighting 48 lbs stretches a spring 6 inches. The mass is in a medium that exerts a viscous resistance of 27 lbs when the mass has a velocity of 6 ft/sec. Suppose the object is displaced an additional 6 inches and released.
Required:
a. Find an equation for the object’s displacement, u(t), in feet after t seconds.
b. What is the mass of the object?
c. What is the damping coefficient?
d. What is the spring constant?
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Answer:
a)
b)
m = 48lb
c)
b = 144.76lb
Explanation:
The general equation of a damping oscillate motion is given by:
uo: initial position
m: mass of the block
b: damping coefficient
w: angular frequency
α: initial phase
a. With the information given in the statement you replace the values of the parameters in (1). But first, you calculate the constant b by using the information about the viscous resistance force:
Then, you obtain by replacing in (1):
6in = 0.499 ft
b.
mass, m = 48lb
c.
b = 144.76 lb/s