A damped harmonic oscillator has a frequency of 5 oscillations per second

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Problem

A damped harmonic oscillator has a frequency of 5 oscillations per second. The amplitude drops to half its value for every 10 oscillations. The time it will take to drop to

\frac{1}{1000}

of the original amplitude is close to: (1) 50s (2) 100s (3) 20s (4) 10s

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Damped Oscillations
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