A 16 lb weight stretches a spring 6 inches in equilibrium. It is attached to a damping mechanism with constant c. Find all values of c such that the free vibration of the weight has infinitely many oscillations.

Explanation:

Given data:

Weight W = 16 lb

length l = 6/12 = 0.5 ft

hence, spring constant  k = W/l = 16/0.5 = 32 lb/ft

The equation of motion of spring is

the auxiliary equation can be written as

The discriminate of equation is

To get the value of the damping constant,

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