IB Physics HL C 4 6 Types of Damping Questions
Practise IB Physics HL C.4.6 by analysing critical, light and heavy damping from graphs and physical settling responses.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2025
- Course
- Physics HL
- Level
- HL
Exam points
- Classify damping regimes from displacement and velocity-time graphs.
- Explain the boundary between oscillatory and non-oscillatory critical damping.
- Apply damping-regime reasoning to suspension, measurement and engineered systems.
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IB Physics HL C 4 6 Types of Damping Questions question 1
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W in (a) is immersed in a beaker of oil. As a result of this immersion the oscillations of W are critically damped. Describe what is meant by critically damped.
(the frictional force on W is such that) motion rapidly dies away/rapidly stops/stops in the minimum time;
without completing an oscillation / without overshooting (equilibrium position);
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