An apparatus suitable for an elementary laboratory experiment on mechanical, forced, damped oscillations is described. Sample results with this apparatus show four ways of measuring Q and three ways of measuring the resonance frequency of the system with good agreement among the results.

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Structural vibrations, Laboratory procedures, Public policy and governance
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© 1953 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1953
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