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If critical damping is the quickest to return the system to initial position without oscillation, why don't we use critical damping everywhere?
Different applications need different damping characteristics.
A speedometer is a critically damped instrument which returns to zero at a faster rate and an auto-closing door is a heavily damped which closes slowly.
Imagine the other way.
