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A driven oscillator on explicit data: the steady response, its amplitude maximum and a worked transient at , , ,
A worked check of the driven oscillator at the declared data m=k=1, f_0=1 N, c=0.2 kg/s, Omega=1 rad/s: the steady response 5 sin t and its verification by substitution, the amplitude 5 m at the drive frequency against the maximum value of the amplitude function and its location, the phase lag, the transient motion from rest and its exponential approach to the steady response, and the comparison with the undamped cases. The item asserts no measured value and no claim about a physical apparatus.
Example
Declare the sinusoidally driven oscillator model of The sinusoidally driven oscillator model: a prescribed external force added to the damped oscillator with so that the physical natural frequency is . In the displayed calculations, denotes the numerical SI time , and position formulas give numerical values in metres. Unless a physical unit is explicitly attached, parameters in those calculations also mean SI numerical values: are normalized by , , and , respectively, and mean physical rates divided by . Thus the numerical drive is , and derivatives of numerical position with respect to give numerical velocity in metres per second. The claims checked below are:
- the steady response is metres, a motion on with amplitude m and phase lag ;
- the amplitude function attains its maximum at with the value , larger than ;
- the motion with datum is which is bounded on and satisfies and as ;
- at the model with the same drive at has the unbounded motion , while at every motion is bounded with amplitude m for the steady response.
Verification
Proof technique: direct; substitute the displayed steady response into the equation, evaluate the amplitude function and its maximum, and solve the initial value problem explicitly.
Given: The driven model with , , , , the steady response , and the amplitude function .
[L1] General theory (The driven oscillator: steady response and amplitude profile, bounded damped and off-resonant motions, and unbounded undamped resonance, Sinusoidal forcing: the steady response, its amplitude and phase, and resonance at , The amplitude of the sinusoidally forced damped oscillator: location and value of its maximum, The homogeneous damped oscillator: solution classification by the discriminant and uniqueness for initial data): for this model , when , the amplitude is , every motion is homogeneous, the transient decays for , every maximal motion is bounded on for , and for the exceptional frequency is with the unbounded response and bounded motions otherwise. For , the homogeneous family is , with and .
[L2] Derivatives and values: , (The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine), (The exponential function is smooth and ), products by the algebra of derivatives and composites by the chain rule; , (Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi); and (Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine).
[L3] Dimensions of the underlying physical quantities (Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework): , , , , ; the denominator has the dimension of , so carries length.
Parameters: , , , so , and m. The general real form gives , and the substitution check is direct: by [L2], so is a motion on . Taking gives with and : the phase lag is .
Amplitude maximum: , so its continuous extension has and . By [L1] and , the maximum occurs at and equals , since because ; hence the drive at the natural frequency is below the peak of the amplitude curve.
Transient from rest. By [L1] every motion equals with homogeneous; with numerical rates and , the homogeneous motions in numerical time are . The datum forces and by [L2], that is , the displayed motion; it is the unique maximal motion with that datum by clause 2 of The driven oscillator: steady response and amplitude profile, bounded damped and off-resonant motions, and unbounded undamped resonance.
Boundedness and convergence: for , , since by [L2], and as ; differentiating the transient term with [L2] shows that it and its derivative both vanish at infinity, so ; this is the convergence clause 3 of The driven oscillator: steady response and amplitude profile, bounded damped and off-resonant motions, and unbounded undamped resonance, with the explicit decay rate .
Undamped comparison. With the drive at is the exceptional case, and clause 5 of The driven oscillator: steady response and amplitude profile, bounded damped and off-resonant motions, and unbounded undamped resonance gives the unbounded motion ; with one has and the steady amplitude m, with every motion bounded by clause 4 of the same theorem.
Remarks
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What the check exhibits. At the drive frequency equal to the natural frequency of the undamped model, the damped model's steady amplitude is m, and the peak of the amplitude curve is at with value m; the transient from rest dies with rate s. The dimensionless ratio is in the notation of the source's quality factor. All decimal numbers here are approximations of the exact expressions displayed.
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Scope. The data , , are declared model data of this check; no measured value is asserted and no apparatus is claimed to be described by the model.
Depends on
The sinusoidally driven oscillator model: a prescribed external force added to the damped oscillator
The damped oscillator model: a harmonic restoring force with a phenomenological linear drag ,
The one-dimensional force models: data, motions, phase system, potential presentation, energy and equilibria
The driven oscillator: steady response and amplitude profile, bounded damped and off-resonant motions, and unbounded undamped resonance
Strictly damped oscillator: explicit decay bounds, convergence to rest and asymptotic stability of the origin
The damped driven oscillator model: second-order equation, phase-plane system and characteristic data
Sinusoidal forcing: the steady response, its amplitude and phase, and resonance at
The amplitude of the sinusoidally forced damped oscillator: location and value of its maximum
The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine
The exponential function is smooth and
The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi
Square roots exist: a unique with ; the positives are
Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives
Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework
Limits at and , and infinite limits at a point
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
The homogeneous damped oscillator: solution classification by the discriminant and uniqueness for initial data
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- K. K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics, Part CM: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 5.1, Eqs. (5.14)-(5.22), chapter pages 3-5 (PDF pages 89-91): the response function, the forced amplitude, the resonance value and the width of the resonance peak
- I. Stewart, Advanced Classical Mechanics (MIT 8.09/8.309 Fall 2014 course text), Chapter 7, Section 7.1.3, Eqs. (7.15)-(7.16), printed pages 147-148 (PDF pages 150-151): transient plus steady-state forced motion and resonance at the natural frequency