At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. The water in such a configuration ...

Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains into the air. Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom. Can an atom vibrate in the ...

FSA and Lauf have worked together to release a pair of damped headset 'Honey Bearings' that restrict high-frequency, low-amplitude steering buzz from reaching your handlebar. The idea is steering ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

Eigensensitivity analysis addresses how the spectral properties of damped systems—specifically, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors—respond to variations in system parameters. This analytical approach is ...