A demonstration of dry and viscous damping of an oscillating pendulum

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1 Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Caixa Postal 369, CEP 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

2 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Química de Araraquara, Caixa Postal 355, CEP 14800-900, Araraquara, SP, Brazil

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  1. Received 22 May 1998

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Abstract

Damped oscillatory motion is one of the most widely studied movements in physics courses. Despite this fact, dry damped oscillatory motion is not commonly discussed in physics textbooks. In this work, we discuss the dry and viscous damped pendulum, in a teaching experiment that can easily be performed by physics or engineering students.

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