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Also Known As	vibration damper • vibration damping

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viscous damping velocity-squared damping radiation damping magnetic damping Landau damping hysteresis damping dry damping damping capacity damped vibration vibration simple harmonic motion seismic wave resonance frequency period periodic motion amplitude reduced mass

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