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Homework Statement
Show that the ratio of two successive maxima in the displacement of a damped harmonic oscillator is constant.(Note: The maxima do not occur at the points of contact of the displacement curve with the curve Aeˆ(-yt) where y is supposed to be gamma.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I was going through Fowles' Analytical Mechanics and found this exercise in the oscillations chapter. My problem isn't so much with doing the exercise as it is with the note of the authors in the end about the maxima not being in the points of contact between the two curves: Why not? Where else would the maxima of displacement be? I don't get that. Where is my mistake?
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