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Also Known As	vibration damper • vibration damping

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

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