Define light, critical and heavy damping in simple harmonic motion.
Damping reduces the amplitude of oscillation of a system over time. Critical damping reduces the amplitude of the oscillations to zero in the shortest possible time, returning the system to the equilibrium point. Heavy damping returns the system to the equilibrium point slowly with no full oscillation. Light damping consists of oscillations with decaying amplitude over time (constant time period).
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