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DISCUSSION and HINTS
After block B strikes and sticks to block A, the two blocks move together as a single rigid body. In deriving your equation of motion here, focus on a system with a single block (of mass 3m) connected to ground with a spring and dashpot.
Recall the following four-step plan outline in the lecture book and discussed in lecture:
Step 1: FBDs
Draw a free body diagram (FBD) of A+B.
Step 2: Kinetics (Newton/Euler)
Use Newton's 2nd law to write down the dynamical equation for the system in terms of the coordinate x.
Step 3: Kinematics
None needed here.
Step 4: EOM
Your EOM was found at Step 2.
Once you have determined the EOM for the system, identify the natural frequency, damping ratio and the damped natural frequency from the EOM. Also, from the EOM we know that the response of the system in terms of x is given by: x(t) = e-ζωnt [C*cos(ωdt)+ S*sin(ωdt)]. How do you find the response coefficients C and S? What will you use for the initial conditions of the problem? (Consider linear momentum of A+B during impact.)