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A block of mass 1 kg connected to a spring of stiffness 10 N m

is operating in a viscous medium such that the damping ratio (or damping factor) is equal to the ratio of the damped frequency to the natural frequency. The magnitude of the damping ratio for this system is ________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).

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GATE ME 2025 · Paper 1

Mechanical Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Mechanical Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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1 mark

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