Mechanical Vibrations

Development of equations of motion for free and forced single-degree-offreedom (SDOF) systems. Multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Transient response, support motion and vibration isolation for SDOFs. Vibration absorbers, generalized mass and stiffness, orthogonality of normal modes, and root solving and Gauss elimination procedures. Cholesky decomposition and Jacobi diagonalization methods.