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Engineering Mechancis: Statics and Dynamics

by Anthony Bedford and Wallace Fowler
Fourth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddele River, NJ 2005

Authors' Homepages: Anthony Bedford Wallace Fowler

Chapter 21: Vibrations

"Vibrations have been of concern in engineering since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Beginning with the development of electromechanical devices capable of creating and measuring mechanical vibrations, engineering applications of vibrations have included the various areas of acoustics, from architectural acoustics to earthquake detection and analysis. We consider vibrating systems that have one degree of freedom - that is, the position, or configuration, of a system can be specified by a single variable. The fundamental concepts we introduce, including amplitude, frequency, period, damping, and resonance, are also used in the analysis of systems with multiple degrees of freedom."

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