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Vibe:Relaxation Oscillators:Forced Rayleigh Oscillator

Here is a forced Rayleigh oscillator. It is simply a Rayleigh oscillator with a sinusoidal forcing function.

Here is the second-order differential equation for the Forced Rayleigh oscillator:

On the right side of the equals sign, Omega is the forcing frequency and gamma is the amplitude of the forcing sinusoid. Otherwise this equation is identical to the Rayleigh oscillator.

It is here as a companion to the forced van Der Pol oscillator. If anyone has any way to tie this model to reality, perhaps using a physical example, please send email to me at eckdoug[AT]iro[DOT]umontreal[DOT]ca


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