of: a damped harmonic oscillator
is: the condition in which the oscillator is subject to such a weak damping force that it is unable to return to rest as rapidly as a critically damped oscillator. [P5.2, P5.4]
is characterised: by oscillations whose amplitude decays exponentially with time. [P5.4]
is often used as synonymous: with light damping.
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