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An ideal text for advanced undergraduates, the book provides the foundations needed to understand the acoustics of rooms and musical instruments as well as the basics for scientists and engineers interested in noise and vibration. The new edition contains four new chapters devoted primarily to applications of acoustical principles in everyday life: Microphones and Other Transducers, Sound in Concert Halls and Studios, Sound and Noise Outdoors; and Underwater Sound.
A pioneering study of the phenomenon of vibration and its history and reception through culture.
This edition features a new chapter on computational methods that presents the basic principles on which most modern computer programs are developed. It introduces an example on rotor balancing and expands on the section on shock spectrum and isolation.
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This book provides contemporary coverage of the primary concepts and techniques in vibration analysis. More elementary material has been added to the first four chapters of this second edition-making for an updated and expanded introduction to vibration analysis. The remaining eight chapters present material of increasing complexity, and problems are found at the end/of each chapter.
“Having a daily spiritual practice is the key to developing your spiritual skills, gifts, and qualities. When you take the time to acknowledge who you are, focus your mind, and meditate, you create room in your life to grow and you encourage your heart to open up and connect deeply with the flow of life.” - Kyle Gray Kyle Gray’s remarkable intuitive gifts have made him one of the UK’s most sought-after experts in the field. Now, following huge demand from his readers, Kyle unveils the 111 essential practices that he has been using for over 10 years to develop his spiritual skills. In this book, Kyle explains how you too can deepen your connection with the Divine. The key is to raise your vibration, and Kyle teaches how you can do this by cultivating practices and habits such as: • trusting and developing your inner guidance • expressing yourself in a way that’s filled with the purest integrity • giving and receiving in a way that’s balanced • manifesting and creating a life you love and deserve. . . and much more! Get ready to shift your energy, access a higher frequency, and start receiving more joy, love, and miracles in your life!
This 1960 book aims primarily to provide an insight into the vibration characteristics of a machine or structure rather than to present a recipe for formal calculations. Classical theory is developed by starting from the concept of steady forced motion and then introducing free motion as a limiting case.
Thisbook will be of interest to mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, and engineering science and mechanics faculty. The main objective of the book is to present a mathematically rigorous approach to vibrations, one that not only permits efficient formulations and solutions to problems, but also enhances understanding of the physics of the problem. The book takes a very broad view approach to the subject so that the similarity of dynamic characteristics of vibrating systems will be understood.
Vibration is a completely non-mathematical account of a subject of vital importance to engineers that is almost invariably discussed in mathematical terms. The description commences with an account of the nature of vibration and its effects on the human body and metals. This is followed by chapters on free vibration, forced vibration, self-excitation, the nature and effect of shocks, and finally an elementary introduction to non-linear vibrations. Many illustrations show the effect of vibration on structures and the methods employed by engineers to suppress unwelcome oscillations. In the second edition of Vibration, Professor Bishop has added two further sections. One is the behaviour of ships in waves and the other on the effects of transient vibration. This book will be of interest to students of mechanical, aeronautical and marine engineering. Its descriptive treatment makes the principles readily accessible to anyone who wants to know why mechanisms and structures fail when they are shaken and what can be done to prevent this happening.