At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

The damped trend method of exponential smoothing is a benchmark that has been difficult to beat in empirical studies of forecast accuracy. One explanation for this success is the flexibility of the ...

Eigensensitivity analysis addresses how the spectral properties of damped systems—specifically, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors—respond to variations in system parameters. This analytical approach is ...