Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford 2019 10 d Solution 2026-10-25
Use and the power formula from solution. Its normalized form isIt is zero at , rises to one at , and decays to zero as . The two positive half-power angular frequencies satisfyOn the low-frequency side, ; on the high-frequency side, . Solving these quadratic equations givesConsequently the frequency bandwidth of viscous oscillator power absorption obeys the stronger exact resultFor a sharp resonance, , expansion gives , which recovers the requested approximation. The exact width above assumes the constant viscous damping coefficient in this model. Although the curve is approximately symmetric near a sharp peak, the exact half-power points satisfy rather than exact symmetry about .
