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प्रश्न
What do you understand by free vibrations of a body? Draw a displacement-time graph to represent them. Given one example.
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उत्तर
The periodic vibrations of a body, of constant amplitude and constant frequency; are called free vibrations. The displacement-time graph to represent free vibrations of a body is given in the figure.
Example: A tuning fork vibrating in a vacuum.

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