Mechanics III: Vibrations

4 credits

Free and forced vibrations of damped 1-DOF systems; vibrations isolation, impact and packaging problems. Analysis of discrete MDOF systems using matrix representation; normal mode of frequencies and modal matrix formulation. Lagrange’s equations. Modal superposition for analysis of continuous vibrating systems. Students will not receive credit for both SE 101C and SE 101CR. Prerequisites: MATH 18 or MATH 31AH and SE 101B.