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  "abstract": "In a bilateral electromechanical transducer, energy exchange across the electromechanical interface allows the electrical termination to modify the mechanical response through electromagnetic feedback. The paper develops this idea from a simple magnetic pendulum, describing the electromechanical coupling through the flux linkage as a function of rotation angle. Torque and back electromotive force then follow from the same coupling function, making the bilateral nature of the energy conversion explicit. A radial-field moving-coil system provides a particularly simple realization in which the coupling becomes independent of angular position and the resulting electromagnetic damping is controlled by the electrical termination. A two-port representation then identifies this damping as an impedance-reflection effect and provides a quantitative criterion for separating the electrical and mechanical time scales. A numerical example compares ideal current drive with critical electrical termination and confirms the reduced second-order description against the full third-order dynamics. The resulting treatment provides a systematic and physically transparent route from familiar undergraduate electromagnetism and oscillator dynamics to electromechanical feedback, bilateral transduction, and the effect of loading in coupled physical systems.",
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      "name": "Angelo Maria Sabatini"
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  "title": "Damping by design in a bilateral electromechanical transducer",
  "title_text": "Damping by design in a bilateral electromechanical transducer",
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