Malmberg and Wharton verified a form of this process derived from the Laplace transform on the linearized Vlasov–Poisson equation, which occurs as the inverse of the two-stream instability. This process is introduced into semi-active vehicle suspensions by acting on an MR fluid. This phenomenon occurs when the first-order term in the equation [read slowly] “x-double-dot plus a x-dot plus b x equals zero” does not vanish. A form of this process that affects longitudinal plasma waves is named for Landau. Three types of this process are classified by a parameter’s value relative to 2m times the natural frequency. When the Q-factor is one-half, this phenomenon occurs critically. For 10 points, name this phenomenon where energy loss causes the decrease of the amplitude of a harmonic oscillator. ■END■
ANSWER: damping [or damped or damper; accept damped harmonic oscillation or damped harmonic oscillator; accept critically damped or overdamped or underdamped; accept Landau damping or magnetorheological damper or MR damper; prompt on magnetorheological shock absorber or MR shock absorber by asking “what causes the absorption?”; reject “dampening”]
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