Introduction to vibration – single degree of freedom systems: free, undamped, damped, and forced vibrations – two-degree of freedom systems: principal modes of vibration, undamped vibration, forced vibration, forced damped vibrations – vibration isolation – multi-degree Freedom systems: eigenvalue problem – orthogonality of mode shapes, modal analysis for free, damped, and forced vibration systems – approximate methods for fundamental frequency – introduction to transient vibrations and non-linear vibrations

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