In a message dated 3/5/01 3:35:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
haar@PHYSICS.ARIZONA.EDU writes:
<< The underdamped solution is a sine in an
exponentially decaying envelope. The mechanical
version is a damped spring and mass system.
>>
Thank you Roger for this explanation. I should have seen right off that the
capacitor and inductor would form a "flywheel " type circuit whose damping
would be a function of the circuit resistance. This is of course the basis
for LC resonate frequency oscillators which prevent damping by providing
energy to the circuit.