  We establish the decay of the solutions of the damped wave equations in one
dimensional space for the Dirichlet, Neumann, and dynamic boundary conditions
where the damping coefficient is a function of space and time. The analysis is
based on the study of the corresponding hyperbolic systems associated with the
Riemann invariants. The key ingredient in the study of these systems is the use
of the internal dissipation energy to estimate the difference of solutions with
their mean values in an average sense.
