1 What is the amplitude response of the system?
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What is the amplitude response of the system?
1.2 Back
It’s called to the gain of the system in terms of input angular frequency
2 What is the phase response of the system?
2.1 Front
What is the phase response of the system?
2.2 Back
It’s called to the phase lag function of the system in terms of input angular frequency.
3 What is the frequency response of the system?
3.1 Front
What is the frequency response of the system?
3.2 Back
It’s the amplitude response and phase response of a system. These functions are expressed in terms of input angular frequency.
4 What happens to the frequency response if the input is scaled by ?
4.1 Front
What happens to the frequency response if the input is scaled by $B$?
4.2 Back
The amplitude response is scales too by
5 Is the gain always equals to …?
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Is the gain always equals to …?
5.2 Back
No, is the ratio between amplitude of the periodic output and amplitude of the periodic input.
6 What is the practical resonance frequency?
6.1 Front
What is the practical resonance frequency?
6.2 Back
It’s an input frequency where the gain has a peak. It’s depends on the DE, and there are some systems where there is no practical resonance frequency.
In systems like , if is large enough, there no practical resonance

7 How can we find the practical resonant frequency?
7.1 Front
How can we find the practical resonant frequency?
7.2 Back
If practical resonance occurs at frequency is when gain response has a maximum for some , so the and it’s a maximum.
If the gain is , then the practical resonant frequency is when has a minimum.
8 What happens to the phase lag on a damped system?
8.1 Front
What happens to the phase lag on a damped system?
8.2 Back
The damping causes a lag between when the input reaches its maximum and when the output does. In this picture below the dotted line is the input and the solid line is the response. The time lag is ratio

9 Write the DE of this mechanical vibration system?
9.1 Front
Write the DE of this mechanical vibration system?

9.2 Back
- is the displacement of the plunger at the top of the spring
- is the position of the mass, arranged so that when the spring is unstretched and uncompressed.
- There are 2 forces acting on the mass
Standard form = , where is the input function and could be sinusoidal .
10 How is the steady state system of this DE?
10.1 Front
How is the steady state system of this DE?
, where
10.2 Back
As the input is a sinusoidal function, we expect a sinusoidal particular solution with a form , where and both functions in terms of
11 What is the frequency response for this system?
11.1 Front
What is the frequency response for this system?
, where is the input
11.2 Back
As the input signal is sinusoidal, when expect a sinusoidal particular solution,
\({\displaystyle g(w) = \frac{A}{B_1} = \frac{k}{\abs{p(i \omega)}} = \frac{k}{\sqrt{(k - m \omega^2)^2 + b^2 \omega^2}}}\)
12 What is the practical resonant frequency for this system?
12.1 Front
What is the practical resonant frequency for this system?
, where
12.2 Back
13 Write the DE of this mechanical vibration system?
13.1 Front
Write the DE of this mechanical vibration system?

13.2 Back
- Position of the bottom
- Position of the mass is given by , arranged so that when the spring is relaxed
\(m \ddot{x} = -kx + b \dv{t}(y - x)\)
14 How could we get a particular solution for this DE?
14.1 Front
How could we get a particular solution for this DE?
, where
14.2 Back
- Complexify before taking the derivative of the RHS
- Since and
- ERF:
- where is the characteristic polynomial
15 What is the gain of this DE?
15.1 Front
What is the gain of this DE?
, where is the input, and its complex solution is
15.2 Back
, thus
16 What is the real solution for this DE?
16.1 Front
What is the real solution for this DE?
, where is the input signal, and is the complex solution
16.2 Back
Real solution will have this form: , so
, thus
We can write \(\widetilde{g}(\omega) = \abs{\widetilde{g}} e^{-i \phi}\), where , so \(z_p(t) = B \abs{\widetilde{g}} e^{i(\omega t - \phi)}\)
So, the real solution is \(x_p(t) = B \abs{\widetilde{g}} \cos(\omega t - \phi)\)
- \({\displaystyle g(\omega) = \abs{\widetilde{g}} = \frac{\omega b}{\abs{p(i\omega)}} = \frac{\omega b}{\sqrt{(k - m \omega^2)^2 + b^2 \omega^2}}}\)
17 What is the practical resonant frequency for this DE?
17.1 Front
What is the practical resonant frequency for this DE?
, where where
Tip:
17.2 Back
Divide the numerator and denominator in by
\({\displaystyle g = \abs{\widetilde{g}} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + (k - m\omega^2)^2 / (\omega b)^2}}}\)
The practical resonant frequency occurs when get its maximum, so is largest when . At this point, and . Thus, the resonant frequency is the natural frequency
Since , the phase lag at
18 Find a solution of this DE?
18.1 Front
Find a solution of this DE?
18.2 Back
Using the method of variation of parameters
Suppose there is a solution of the form for some function . Then and
Substituting in the DE:
The exponential is never zero, so can cancel from both sides and obtain
To solve , we use the method of undetermined coefficients, where the corresponding characteristic polynomial has zero constant term and nonzero linear term. So we guess a quadratic polynomial solution . Plugging this in to the equation, and solving coefficients gives us that
On solution of the DE is
19 How can we know that a system has practical resonant frequency?
19.1 Front
How can we know that a system has practical resonant frequency?
Tip:
19.2 Back
The frequency which gives practical resonance if
20 Rewrite this expression?
20.1 Front
Rewrite this expression?
20.2 Back
21 How can we rotate a complex number?
21.1 Front
How can we rotate $-\pi / 2$ a complex number?
complex number
21.2 Back
22 Complete this graph
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Complete this graph
And describe what it is its phase difference

22.2 Back

- and have a phase difference of
- and have a phase difference of