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342 NANOMACHINES AND NANODEVICES<br />

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Figure 13.7. Damped harmonic oscilla<strong>to</strong>r showing (a) dependence of the displacement of a<br />

free-running (no driving force) oscilla<strong>to</strong>r on time, and (b) dependence of the amplitude of a driven<br />

oscilla<strong>to</strong>r versus the ratio of the driving frequency W' <strong>to</strong> the undamped natural frequency w for<br />

different damping constants b, where Fo is the amplitude of the driving force. (Adapted from<br />

D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Physics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1960, Vol. 1, p. 31 1 .)<br />

source of damping will be air resistance, which is proportional <strong>to</strong> the area of the<br />

beam. For the case of a nanosized beam, this area is very small, so the damping<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>r b is small. Nanosized beams dissipate very little energy over their vibrational<br />

cycles.<br />

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