Announcements !
1)  Problem sets 5, 6, and 7 have been graded and the solutions are in a hanging file in the ES 125 drawer.
       Solutions for these problem sets are also available.
2)  Problem set 8 will be graded by Friday and a solution made available.

Important Information
*  In the ES 125 drawer there are over 40 pages of photocopies of lecture material concerning 3-d rigid body dynamic.
*  Photocopies of the last two years of final exams in ES 125 are in a hanging file in the ES 125 drawer.

1) The final Exam is January 24.  Remember you are allowed three sheets of 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper for your own notes.
2) Bring a calculator since there is likely to be a problem with numbers with units.
3) Bring your copy of the Laplace transform tables.

Course Description

Modeling and analysis primarily of mechanical systems. Topics include natural frequency, damping, frequency response to forcing functions, Laplace transform methods, Lagrange's equations, multiple degrees of freedom systems, and rigid body rotations. Computer exercises on simulation of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems.

 
Laboratory: experiments on vibration, stabilization, and complex dynamical system using modern electronic instrumentation and data reduction systems. Computer simulations of a few systems will become laboratory exercises.

Prerequisite: Applied Mathematics 21a, b or Mathematics  21 a, b or 22a, b; Physics 11a or 15a.
 

Singiresu S. Rao, Mechanical Vibrations, Third Edition, 1995, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts.
William W. Seto, Mechanical Vibrations, Schaum's Outline Series.
 
 

REFERENCES

o C. M. Close and D.K. Frederick, Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems, Second Edition, 1993, Houghton Mifflin.
o I. Cochin and H. J. Plass, Jr., Analysis and Design of Dynamic Systems, Second Edition, 1990, Harper and Row, New York.
o Leonard Meirovitch, Elements of Vibration Analysis, Second Edition,  1986, McGraw-Hill.
o K. Ogata, System Dynamics, Second Edition, 1992, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.
o G. W. Housner and D. E. Hudson, Applied Mechanics, Vol. II,  Dynamics, Second Edition, 1959, D. Van Nostrand, Princeton, New Jersey.
o J. P. DenHartog, Mechanical Vibrations, 1985, Dover, Mineola, New York.
 INSTRUCTOR
 

GOALS

To provide an introduction to the methods of analysis and design of dynamical systems, and to enable students to model mechanical systems and to predict the performance of linear and non-linear systems.
 
 
 

Hour Exam

The hour exam will be given during the first week of November 1998.   It will be a closed book and closed notes examination, but you can have a page of notes ( both sides in your own hand writing) and a calculator.

I will provide yellow pads for you to write your solutions.

Course Outline

Reading Assignments

Problem Sets

Sections

Laboratory Assignments

Students