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Vibrations: Critical Damping Coefficient

A mass-spring-damper system has $m = 10\,\mathrm{kg}$ and $k = 360\,\mathrm{N/m}$ . Find the critical damping coefficient $c_c$ .

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\,\mathrm{N\cdot s/m}

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