ticularly important for our purposes, but for completeness I’ll note,
as you can easily verify, that the general solution to the equation of
motion for 0< Q < 1 /2 is of the formx=Ae−ct+Be−dt, while
Q= 1/2, called the critically damped case, givesx= (A+Bt)e−ct.190 Chapter 3 Conservation of Momentum