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PH-1201

Problem set for Unit-1A


(Forced vibration)
A. Theory
1. Consider a particle executing SHM. Find out the equation of motion from energy
conservation.
2. What should be the form of equation of motion in case of damped oscillation and find the
solution in case of low damping, critical damping and over damping.
3. Solve the equation M.d2 x/dt2+Rm.dx/dt+S.x=F.cost for force vibration using complex
form.
4. Write the above equation in the form M.dv/dt + Rm.v + S.
velocity at steady state.

= F.cost and solve it for

5. Point out the similarities between this mechanical system and an a.c. circuit.
6.

What is mechanical impedance? Is it real or complex quantity? Justify your answer.

7. What is resonance? Find out the maximum displacement and velocity amplitude at
resonance. Distinguish between the displacement resonance and velocity resonance in
terms of energy.
8. Defined power in force vibration. What is the average power at resonance? Is it the
maximum value of average power which can be obtained by varying alone?
9. Show that in steady state of force vibration and also at resonance the power dissipated per
cycle is spent in overcoming the resistance.
10. Defined power factor? What is the power factor at velocity resonance?
11. What is sharpness of resonance? Find a measure for it.
12. Defined half-power frequency, Quality factor and band-width.
13. Plot the velocity amplitude as a function of and find the different components of the
impedance at different region of the curve which are effective in controlling the velocity
amplitude.
14. What is the phase relation between applied force, displacement and the velocity at steady
state? Show the variation of (phase angle between velocity and force) and (phase
angle between displacement and force) with for two different Rm and justify your
answer.

B. Problem
1. A telephone diaphragm of effective mass 1 g is acted on by a restoring force of 10 7 dynes
per cm of displacement, a retarding force of 4*10 3 dynes per unit velocity (cm/s) and a
driving force of 105 cos5t dynes. Find the values of its
(a) Mechanical impedance
(b) Mechanical reactance
(c) Maximum possible amplitude
(d) Maximum possible velocity
(e) At what frequencies do (c) and (d) occur?
(f) What is value of (b) at the frequency of (d)?
(g) If the frequency of velocity resonance is sought to be reduced to half by changing the
mass only, then what will be the new mass?
2. An oscillator has a mass of 10 g, a retarding force of 100 dyne.s.cm-1 and a restoring
force of 106 dune cm-1. Find its
(a) Natural frequency
(b) Decay constant
(c) Quality factor (Q)

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