· Harmonic motion

· Stiffness & Viscous damping

· Energy methods

· Stability

· Other forms of damping/friction

Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1 – 2.9): Response to Harmonic Excitation

· Undamped system response

· Damped system response

· Base excitation

· Rotating unbalance

· Other forms of damping/friction

· Nonlinear system response

Chapter 3 (Sections 3.1 – 3.4): Response to General Forces

· Impulse response

· Response to arbitrary excitation

· Response to periodic excitation

· Laplace transform

Chapter 4 (Sections 4.1 – 4.8, 4.10): Multi-Degree-Of-Freedom Systems

· Modeling

· Eigenvalues and natural frequencies

· Modal analysis

· Modal analysis of the forced response

· Lagrange’s form of equations of motion

Chapter 5 (Sections 5.1 – 5.5, 5.7): Design for Vibration Suppression

· Vibration isolation

· Vibration absorbers

· Optimization

· Critical speeds of rotating disks