Vibration for Engineers

An undergraduate text on vibration, for a second course in vibration with design emphasis. Chapters on kinematics of vibration; natural vibration about equilibrium; lumped mass systems; vibration of nonlinear systems; and machinery vibration contains exercises and problems, summaries of equations, and profiles and b&w photos of historical figures of in the field. Includes pseudocode and MATHEMATICA code, with FORTRAN code on a separately available disk. This second edition includes drill exercises, numerous reference tables of properties of engineering materials, and introductory material on symbolic processing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.