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How does the medium affect the amplitude of the natural vibrations of a body?
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When a body is made to vibrate in a medium, the amplitude of the vibrating body continuously decreases with time because energy is lost in doing work against the force of friction offered by the medium and ultimately the body stops vibrating.
Such vibrations are called the damped vibrations.
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