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Homework Statement
Given a electrical circuit as one below
One can find the transfer function
For second order systems this can be written as
I know that the damping coefficient can be found using the following formula
In the over damped case ζ>1 can easily occur depending on the values of the components above.
My question is how would you plot a bode plot when ζ>1? I know that when 0<=ζ<=1 Θ can be found using, Θ=arccos(ζ). In the over damped case you would get the arccosine of a value greater than one. In which case Θ is imaginary so how would you go about plotting it such a angle? I know how to solve such a equation such as arccosine(2), but am unsure of the physical conclusions from such a equation. I'm just intrigued by learning physical representations of the trigonometric functions that fall out side of their real domains. I would like to learn more on this subject.
Thanks for any help.