3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionReview of systems with one degree for freedom. LaGrange's equations of motion for multiple degree of freedom systems. Introduction to matrix methods. Transfer functions for harmonic response, impulse response, and step response. Convolution integrals for response to arbitrary inputs. Principle frequencies and modes. Applications to critical speeds, measuring instruments, isolation, torsional systems. Introduction to nonlinear problems.
Course ME 563 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.