PHYS 231 - 20240911

PHYS 231 - 20240911
Jake Bobowski - UBC Okanagan
Qualitative discussion of the transient response of an LRC circuit. We consider the mechanical analogy of a mass suspended from a spring and submerged in a viscous fluid.

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critical damping is not the fastest in reaching equilibrium state...especially not in a practical sense (i.e. in experiments and applications)...e.g. damping coefficient about 10% smaller than critical can be a much better choice, and sometimes (depending on the initial conditions) even a damping coeffficient in the overdamp regime can be the fastest in reaching equilibrium state...there are some subtleties to this issue that are often not considered...