Mechanical vibrations are usually found as an unwanted side effect in many areas of engineering. Examples include vehicle vibrations on uneven roads or engine vibrations. Vibration theory is a particularly challenging area in the field of mechanics.
Learning Objectives And Experiments:
1. Damped and undamped resonance
2. Absorber effect in multi-mass oscillators
3. Experiments with pendulums
Reduced pendulum length
Spring-mass system
Katers pendulum
4. Bar-type oscillator
Forced vibration
Undamped oscillation
Damped oscillation
Features:
Detailed, wide-ranging series of experiments on the mechanical vibration theory
Experiments on various pendulums, bar-type oscillators and spring-mass systems
Damping, resonance and absorber effects in forced vibrations.
