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A large rectangular barge floating on a lake oscillates up and down with a period of 4.5 s...

A large rectangular barge floating on a lake oscillates up and down with a period of 4.5 s. Find the damping constant for the barge, given that its mass is 2.44 × 105 kg and that its amplitude of oscillation decreases by a factor of 2.0 in 5.0 minutes.

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