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Science Bowl Question

📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 1#️⃣ Question 23🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Consider a damped spring-mass system with some nonzero initial displacement. If a phase diagram is constructed with position on the horizontal axis and velocity on the vertical axis, which of the following best describes the path that the system takes?

W) Clockwise around an ellipse
X) Counterclockwise around an ellipse
Y) Clockwise in a spiral
Z) Counterclockwise in a spiral
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