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This document contains multiple physics problems related to spring-mass-damper systems, including: finding the damped natural frequency of a system; calculating the damping ratio from known frequencies in different mediums; determining maximum deflection of a bumper system; designing a recoil mechanism; finding stiffness and mass of automobile systems; calculating damping ratio and coefficient from given parameters; and determining natural frequencies of oscillating systems. The problems cover concepts like damping, stiffness, natural frequency, damping ratio, and applying physics principles to real-world examples like vehicles, guns, and poles.

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For A Spring

This document contains multiple physics problems related to spring-mass-damper systems, including: finding the damped natural frequency of a system; calculating the damping ratio from known frequencies in different mediums; determining maximum deflection of a bumper system; designing a recoil mechanism; finding stiffness and mass of automobile systems; calculating damping ratio and coefficient from given parameters; and determining natural frequencies of oscillating systems. The problems cover concepts like damping, stiffness, natural frequency, damping ratio, and applying physics principles to real-world examples like vehicles, guns, and poles.

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For a spring-mass-damper system, m = 50 kg and k = 5000 N/m.

Find the damped natural


frequency when c =c/2

A spring-mass system is found to vibrate with a frequency of 120 cycles per minute in air
and 100 cycles per minute in a liquid. Find the damping ratio when vibration in the
liquid. Assume m = 10 kg.

A spring-mass system is found to vibrate with a frequency of 120 cycles per minute in air
and 100 cycles per minute in a liquid. Find the damping constant c. Assume m= 10 kg

A railroad bumper is designed as a spring in parallel with a viscous damper. What is the
maximum deflection of the bumper so that the system has a damping ratio of 1.25 when
the bumper is engaged by a 20,000-kg railroad car and has a stiffness of 2x 10° N/m. The
railroad car is traveling at a speed of 10 m/s when it engages the bumper.

The recoil mechanism of a gun is designed with critical damping such that the system
returns TO 13 mm position the quickest without overshooting. Design a recoil mechanism
(by specifying G) for a 10-kg gun with a 5 cm recoil such that the firing mechanism
returns to Within 0.5 cm of firing within 0.5 s after maximum recoil

An automobile is found to have a natural frequency of 20 rad/s without passengers and


17.32 rad/s with passengers of mass 500 kg. Find the stiffness of the automobile by
treating it as a single-degree-of-freedom system.

An automobile is found to have a natural frequency of 20-radis with out passengers and
17 32 radius with passengers of mass 500 kg. Find the mass of the automobile by treating
it as a single-degree-of-freedom system.
A 100-kg block is attached to a spring of stiffness 1.5x10° M/m in parallel with a viscous
damper of damping coefficient 4900 N-s/m. The block is given an initial velocity of 5 m/s
What is the damping ratio of the system?

The recoil mechanism of a gun is designed with critical damping such that the system returns to its
firing position the quickest without, overshooting. Design a recoil mechanism (by specitying c) for a
10-kg pun with a 5-em recoil such that the firing mechanism returns to within 0.5 cm of firing within
0.5 s after maximum recoil.
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24. A 500-1b vehicle is mounted on springs such that its static deflection is 1.5 mm. What is the
damping coefficient of a viscous damper to be added to *76 3 sten/in parallel with the springs, such
that the sale in altaly damped?

A sway pole is used by aerialists for acrobatic tricks. A sway pole consists of a long thin pole fixed at
one end designed such that an aerialist can sway and perform tricks at the end of the pole. What is the
natural frequency, in rad/s, of a 120-Ib aerialist at the end of a 25-ft steel pole of 4 in diameter?
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A 300-kg block is attached to four identical springs, each of stiffness 2.3x105 N/m, placed in
parallel. Determine the system's natural frequency in hertz
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A thin disk of mass moment of inertia 5.8 kg-m7 is attached to the end of a 2.5m aluminum (G = 40
x 10° N/m?) shaft of 10 cm diameter. What is the natural frequency of the torsional oscillation of the
disk, in rad/s?

When empty, the static deflection of a 2000-Ib vehicle is 0.8 in. What is the vehicle's natural
frequency when it is carrying a 200-Ib passenger and 250-ib of cargo?

What is the value of c such that the system in the figure shown below is critically damped if m = 20
kg and * = 10,000 N/m?

A 200-kg block is attached to a spring of stiffness 50,000 N/m in parallel with a viscous damper. The
period of free vibration of this system is observed as 0.417s. What is the välue of the damping
coefficient?

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