For spacecraft, operation in a vacuum often means low mechanical damping.
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The Dragon CD playing system has special mechanical damping to prevent vibrations of the CD, and holds multiple CDs.
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Owing to its low mechanical damping at ordinary temperatures, it is used for wine-glass resonator of hemispherical resonator gyro ( HRG ).
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The latter equation shows optical damping, i . e . the intrinsic mechanical damping \ Gamma becomes stronger ( or weaker ) due to the optomechanical interaction.
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From the formula one can see that for negative detuning and large coupling, the mechanical damping can be greatly increased, which corresponds to cooling of the mechanical oscillator.
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This increases mechanical damping, and the resulting decrease in the impedance magnitude at resonance is generally the desired effect, though there is no perceived or objective benefit to this.
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This is reinforced by the purveyors of AP membranes; they are often sold with an electronic processor which, via equalization, restores the bass output lost through the mechanical damping.
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However, when applied to hard disk drives, it brings a new level of mechanical damping into the drives, which helps make the drives more stable and improves their ability to read and write tracks.
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Two main effects of the light on the mechanical oscillator can then be expressed in the following way : The optically induced damping of the mechanical oscillator that adds to the intrinsic mechanical damping.