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CAIE A-Level Physics A2 17.3 Damped and Forced Oscillations Resonance Questions

Practise explaining damping, classifying light, critical and heavy damping, interpreting decay and resonance under forced oscillation.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Physics 9702
Level
A2

Exam points

  • explain damping and distinguish light, critical and heavy damping from graphs or behaviour
  • interpret damping graphs and energy/amplitude decay
  • explain resonance as maximum forced amplitude at the natural frequency and analyse the effects of driving frequency and damping

Covered syllabus points

17.3.1—A resistive force acting on an oscillating system causes damping17.3.2—The terms light, critical and heavy damping and sketch displacement–time17.3.3—Resonance involves a maximum amplitude of oscillations and that this occurs

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