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Suppose a spring with spring constant 8 N/m is horizontal and has one end attached to a wall and the other end attached to a 4 kg mass. Suppose that the friction of the mass with the floor (i.e., the damping constant) is 3 N·s/m. a. Set up a differential equation that describes this system. Let x to denote the displacement, in meters, of the mass from its equilibrium position, and give your answer in terms of x, x', x''. Assume that positive displacement means the mass is farther from the wall than when the system is at equilibrium. Use g = 9.8 m/sec² as needed. x''+(3/4)x'+2x=0 b. Find the general (real-valued) solution to your differential equation from the previous part. Use c1 and c2 to denote arbitrary constants. Use t for independent variable to represent the time elapsed in seconds. Enter c1 as c1 and c2 as c2. Your answer should be an equation of the form x = .... c. Is this system underdamped, overdamped, or critically damped? Enter a value for the damping constant that would make the system critically damped. N·s/m

          Suppose a spring with spring constant 8 N/m is horizontal and has one end attached to a wall and the other end attached to a 4 kg mass. Suppose that the friction of the mass with the floor (i.e., the damping constant) is 3 N·s/m.

a. Set up a differential equation that describes this system. Let x to denote the displacement, in meters, of the mass from its equilibrium position, and give your answer in terms of x, x', x''. Assume that positive displacement means the mass is farther from the wall than when the system is at equilibrium. Use g = 9.8 m/sec² as needed.
x''+(3/4)x'+2x=0

b. Find the general (real-valued) solution to your differential equation from the previous part. Use c1 and c2 to denote arbitrary constants. Use t for independent variable to represent the time elapsed in seconds. Enter c1 as c1 and c2 as c2. Your answer should be an equation of the form x = ....

c. Is this system underdamped, overdamped, or critically damped? Enter a value for the damping constant that would make the system critically damped.
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Suppose a spring with spring constant 8 N/m is horizontal and has one end attached to a wall and the other end attached to a 4 kg mass. Suppose that the friction of the mass with the floor (i.e., the damping constant) is 3 N·s/m.

a. Set up a differential equation that describes this system. Let x to denote the displacement, in meters, of the mass from its equilibrium position, and give your answer in terms of x, x', x”. Assume that positive displacement means the mass is farther from the wall than when the system is at equilibrium. Use g = 9.8 m/sec² as needed.
x”+(3/4)x'+2x=0

b. Find the general (real-valued) solution to your differential equation from the previous part. Use c1 and c2 to denote arbitrary constants. Use t for independent variable to represent the time elapsed in seconds. Enter c1 as c1 and c2 as c2. Your answer should be an equation of the form x = ....

c. Is this system underdamped, overdamped, or critically damped? Enter a value for the damping constant that would make the system critically damped.
N·s/m

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Suppose a spring with a spring constant of 8 N/m is horizontal and has one end attached to a wall and the other end attached to a 4 kg mass. Suppose that the friction of the mass with the floor (i.e., the damping constant) is 3 N·s/m. a. Set up a differential equation that describes this system. Let x to denote the displacement, in meters, of the mass from its equilibrium position, and give your answer in terms of x, x', x''. Assume that positive displacement means the mass is farther from the wall than when the system is at equilibrium. Use g = 9.8 m/sec² as needed. b. Find the general (real-valued) solution to your differential equation from the previous part. Use c1 and c2 to denote arbitrary constants. Use t for independent variable to represent the time elapsed in seconds. Enter c1 as c1 and c2 as c2. Your answer should be an equation of the form x = .... c. Is this system underdamped, overdamped, or critically damped? Enter a value for the damping constant that would make the system critically damped?
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00:02 Okay, we have a mass on a spring that has friction.
00:07 So we've given our spring constant, our mass, and our b, which is our damping constant.
00:16 The differential equation looks like this, or written in terms of the numbers like that.
00:22 The solution generally looks like this, where c1 and c2 are arbitrary constants.
00:28 If we substitute into the equation and solve for alpha and omega, which is a long algebraic process, we find that alpha is 3 .8s and omega is a square root of 119 over 8...
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