Q as Energy Stored over Energy Dissipated
Yet another meaning for is as follows [20, p. 326]
Proof. The total stored energy at time is equal to the total energy of the remaining response. After an impulse at time 0, the stored energy in a second-order resonator is
Assuming as before, so that
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