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Finding the Value of the Damping Constant c According to the Given Criteria

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A guitar string is plucked and vibrates in damped harmonic motion. The string is pulled and displaced 2 cm from its resting position. After 3 seconds, the displacement of the string measures 1 cm. Find the damping constant.

OpenStax Precalculus 2e, 7.6 Modeling with Trigonometric Functions, exercise 19

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