Abstract
A conservative model for the damped harmonic oscillator is constructed by attaching a string of infinite extent to the oscillator's mass. This system may be used to illustrate, in simple terms, a number of important concepts such as radiation damping, the characteristic impedance of a wave propagating medium, Brownian motion, and the Langevin equation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1099-1102 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | American Journal of Physics |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1984 |
| Externally published | Yes |