A spring controlled governor is found unstable. If can be made stable by

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  1. Increasing the spring stiffness
  2. decreasing the spring stiffness
  3. Increasing the ball weight
  4. decreasing the ball weight

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Option 2 : decreasing the spring stiffness
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A spring controlled governor can be made stable by decreasing the spring stiffness.

A governor is said to be stable when for every speed within the working range there is a definite configuration i.e. there is only one radius of rotation of the governor balls at which the governor is in equilibrium. For a stable governor, if the equilibrium speed increases, the radius of governor balls must also increase. A governor is said to be unstable if the radius of rotation decreases as the speed increases.

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