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Past exam of the physics A course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 2 Section B B7 e Solution by
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The response is quasistatic at low frequency, resonantly enhanced when the spring and inertia nearly cancel, and suppressed as at high frequency. The original graph gives approximate readings , and . These are graph estimates, not exact supplied measurements.
Use oscillator parameters from static and resonant displacement. The static spring constant isFor light damping, , givingNear resonance, , soIndependently, the resonance enhancement estimates the same quality factor. The half-power displacement level is ; its intersections are approximately and , giving bandwidth and .
The exact displacement-peak frequency is . At its difference from is only about , well below the precision justified by this printed curve. Greater numerical precision for the inferred parameters would be misleading.
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