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Simple Nature - Light and Matter

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186 Chapter 3 Conservation of Momentumticularly important for our purposes, but for completeness I’ll note,as you can easily verify, that the general solution to the equation ofmotion for 0 < Q < 1/2 is of the form x = Ae −ct + Be −dt , whileQ = 1/2, called the critically damped case, gives x = (A + Bt)e −ct .

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