Physics A-Level
Natural frequency of an oscillatory system
What Natural frequency of an oscillatory system means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The frequency at which a system oscillates freely once displaced.
Topics that use Natural frequency of an oscillatory system
- Damping (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Amplitude–driving frequency graph
- Critical damping
- Damping
- Damping and resonance amplitude
- Forced oscillation
- Free oscillation
- Heavy damping
- Light damping
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