SE 101CMechanics III: Vibrations

4 units · SE · UC San Diego

Free and forced vibrations of damped 1-DOF systems; vibrations isolation, impact and packaging problems. Analysis of discrete MDOF systems using matrix representation; normal mode of frequencies and modal matrix formulation. Lagrange’s equations. Modal superposition for analysis of continuous vibrating systems.

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Prerequisites

You need one from each line:

MATH 18 or MATH 31AH
SE 101B

What it opens up

Courses that list SE 101C as a prerequisite (5)

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