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The term "underdamped" describes the behavior of a system that oscillates with decreasing amplitude when disturbed from its equilibrium position. This is a common characteristic in systems exhibiting oscillatory motion, such as a pendulum, a spring-mass system, or an electrical circuit with inductance and capacitance. When an underdamped system is perturbed, it will swing back and forth, but each subsequent swing will be smaller than the previous one. This reduction in amplitude is due to energy dissipation, which is present in all real-world systems to some extent.
The rate at which the oscillations decay in an underdamped system is determined by the damping coefficient.