Explain, in not more than two sentences, why the amplitude of a heavily damped…

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Explain, in not more than two sentences, why the amplitude of a heavily damped spring–mass system drops to nearly zero in a much shorter time than that of a lightly damped one, even though both start with the same initial amplitude.

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