1. A 0.5 kg mass is attached to a linear spring of stiffness 0.1 N/m.

Determine the natural

frequency of the system.
2. Differentiate between free and forced vibration of a mechanical system. Give a suitable
example.
3. When the frequency of external excitation is equal to the natural frequency, What
happens to the vibrating body?
4. Draw the response of the single degree of freedom damped vibration: a) underdamped, b)
critically damped and c) overdamped
5. Two point masses of 3.0 kg and 1.0 kg are attached to opposite ends of a horizontal
spring whose spring constant in 300 Nm-1 as shown in figure. Find the natural frequency
of vibration of the system

6. Discuss briefly about the vibration isolators with a suitable example.

7. Draw a seismic measuring instrument and label its parts
8. Define influence coefficient of a multiple degree of freedom system

9. List any two numerical methods used to find the natural frequency for multiple degree of
freedom system
10. Define continuous system and give an example.
11. a. Springs are available in stiffness values of 10, 100, and 1000 N/m. Design a
spring system using these values only, so that a 100-kg mass is connected to
ground with frequency of about 1.5 rad/s.
b. A system of springs with their spring constants is shown in Figure. What is the
frequency of oscillations of the mass m?

12. a. A very common example of base motion is the single-degree-of-freedom model

of an automobile driving over a rough road. The road is modeled as providing a
base motion displacement of y(t) = (0.01)sin (5.818t) m. The suspension provides

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 an equivalent stiffness of k = 4 x 10 5 N/m, a damping coefficient of c = 40 x 10 3
kg/s and a mass of 1007 kg. Determine the amplitude of the absolute
displacement of the automobile mass
b. The static deflection of the vibrometer mass is 20 mm. The instrument when
attached to a machine vibrating with a frequency of 125 cpm records a relative
amplitude of 0.03 cm. Determine (a) the amplitude of vibration (b) the maximum
velocity of vibration (c) the maximum acceleration.
13. a. A system of beam supports a mass of 1200 kg. The motor has an unbalanced
mass of 1 kg located at 6 cm radius. It is known that the resonance occurs at 2210
rpm. What amplitude of vibration can be expected at the motors operating speed
of 1440 rpm if the damping factor is assumed to be less than 0.1
b. A flywheel is mounted on a vertical shaft as shown in Fig. The both ends of a
shaft are fixed and its diameter is 50 mm. The flywheel has a mass of 500 kg and
its radius of gyration is 0.5 m. Find the natural frequency of torsional vibrations,
if the modulus of rigidity for the shaft material is 80 GN/m2.
14. a. Convert the below system from equation to matrix form

b. Derive the wave equation for the longitudinal vibration of a bar

15. a. Derive the wave equation for the longitudinal vibration of the bar

b. Find the natural frequencies of the torsional three rotor system show in fig.
diameter of each rotor is 25.4 cm. weight of each rotor and its thickness are
shown in the diagram. G for the material = 8.5  105 kg/cm2. Assume the natural
frequency of the first rotor to be zero..

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16. a. Determine the natural frequency of oscillation of a half solid cylinder of mass ‘m’
and radius ‘r’ when it is slightly displaced from mean position and released

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 b. Answer the following:
i) Find the natural frequency using static equilibrium along with Newton’s
law, determine what effect gravity has on the equation of motion and the
system’s natural frequency. Assume the block slides without friction.

ii) The amplitude of vibration of an undamped system is measured to be 1

mm. The phase shift from t = 0 is measured to be 2 rad and the frequency
is found to be 5 rad/s. Calculate the initial conditions that caused this
vibration to occur. Assume the response is of the form x(t) = A sin( ω nt +
∅ ).
17. a. Calculate the natural frequency and damping ratio for the system in Figure.
Assume that no friction acts on the rollers. Is the system overdamped, critically
damped or underdamped?

b. A heavy machine of 3000 N, is supported on a resilient foundation. The static

deflection of the foundation due to the weight of the machine is found to be 7.5
cm. It is observed that the machine vibrates with an amplitude of 1 cm when the
base of the machine is subjected to harmonic oscillations at the undamped natural
frequency of the system with an amplitude of 0.25 cm. Find (a) the damping
constant of the foundation (b) the dynamic force amplitude on the base (c) the
amplitude of the displacement of the machine relative to the base.

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18. a. Determine the eigen values and eigen vectors of a 2 DOF vibrating system shown in the
Figure below:

b. A steel shaft 1.5 m long is 95 mm in diameter for the first 0.6 m of its length, 60
mm in diameter for the next 0.5 m of the length and 50 mm in diameter for the
remaining 0.4 m of its length. The shaft carries two flywheels at two ends, the
first having a mass of 900 kg and 0.85 m radius of gyration located at the 95 mm
diameter end and the second having a mass of 700 kg and 0.55 m radius of
gyration located at the other end. Determine the location of the node and the
natural frequency of free torsional vibration of the system. The modulus of
rigidity of shaft material may be taken as 80 GN/m2.

19. a. A single degree of freedom spring mass system has a natural frequency of 10
cycles per second. Another single degree of freedom spring mass system is
attached to it. The latter had a natural frequency of 20 cycles per second. What is
the approximate fundamental frequency of composite system?
b. Find the natural frequency and mode shape for the given system.

20. a. Answer the following:

i) Write down the equation of motion of a 2 DOF vibrating system shown in the

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 Figure below and convert it into matrix form.
ii) Calculate the natural frequencies of the 2 DOF system. Consider m1 = 9 kg m2
= 1 kg k1 = 24 N/m k2 = 3 N/m k3 = 3 N/m. Take c1 = c2 = c3 = 0.

b. Find the frequency of the given system where M1=5 Kg,M2=M3=4 Kg,
K1=3 KN/m, K2=K3= 2 KN/m using Matrix inverse iteration method

Define degrees of freedom of a vibrating body

11. An undamped system vibrates with a frequency of 10 Hz and amplitude 1 mm.
Calculate the maximum amplitude of the system's velocity and acceleration.
12. When the frequency of external excitation is equal to the natural frequency, What
happens to the vibrating body?
13. Draw the response of the single degree of freedom damped vibration: a)
underdamped, b) critically damped and c) overdamped
14. Define continuous system and give an example.

15. Discuss the types of vibration isolators with a suitable example.

16. List any two numerical methods used to find the natural frequency for multiple
degree of freedom system
17. Define stiffness influence coefficient

18. Define orthogonality principle

19. List the approximation methods
11. c. What is a simple pendulum? Find an expression for the time period and
frequency of a simple pendulum using energy method.
d. An unknown mass m is attached to one end of a spring of stiffness k having
natural frequency of 6 Hz. When 1kg mass is attached, the natural frequency
decreases by 20%. Determine the value of unknown mass m and stiffness k.
12. c. Discuss the working principle of a vibration measuring instrument with a
neat sketch
d. A system of beam supports a mass of 1200 kg. The motor has an unbalanced
mass of 1 kg located at 6 cm radius. It is known that the resonance occurs at
2210 rpm. What amplitude of vibration can be expected at the motors

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 operating speed of 1440 rpm if the damping factor is assumed to be less than
0.1
13. c. Derive the expression for natural frequency of a two rotor system with a neat
sketch and give the description for the terms in the equation.
d. A shaft of 100 mm diameter and 1 metre long has one of its end fixed and
the other end carries a disc of mass 500 kg at a radius of gyration of 450
mm. The modulus of rigidity for the shaft material is 80 GN/m2.
Determine the frequency of torsional vibrations.
14. c. Derive the wave equation for the longitudinal vibration of the bar

d. Derive the wave equation for the torsional vibration of a string

15. c. Explain about Rayley’s method

d. Obtain the governing differential equation of motion of the double pendulum

shown below. Also find the natural frequencies of the
system.

16. c. A machine part is modeled as a pendulum connected to a spring as illustrated in

Figure. Ignore the mass of pendulum’s rod and derive the equation of motion.
Find the linearized equation of motion and compute the formula for the natural
frequency. Assume that the rotation is small enough so that the spring only
deflects horizontally

d. A body of mass 100 kg is suspended by a spring of stiffness of 30 kN/m and

dashpot of damping constant 1000 Ns/m. Vibration is excited by a harmonic
force of amplitude 80 N and a frequency of 3 Hz. Calculate the amplitude of

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 the displacement for the vibration and the phase angle between the
displacement and the excitation force
17. c. Answer the following:
i) Classify various types of damping in a vibrating body
ii) For a damped system, m, c, and k are known to be m = 1 kg, c =
2 kg/s, k = 10 N/m. Calculate the value of ζ and ωn. Is the system
overdamped, underdamped, or critically damped?
d. A mass of 1 kg is to be supported on a spring having a stiffness of 9800
N/m. The damping coefficient is 5.9 N-sec/m. Determine the natural
frequency of the system. Find also the logarithmic decrement and the
amplitude after three cycles if the initial displacement is 0.003m.

18. c. Calculate the total energy in a damped system with frequency 2 rad/s and
damping ratio ζ = 0.01 with mass 10 kg for the case x0 = 0.1 and v0 = 0.
d. Answer the following:
i) Write down the equation of motion of a 2 DOF vibrating system shown in
the Figure below and convert it into matrix form.
ii) Calculate the natural frequencies of the 2 DOF system. Consider m1 = 9
kg m2 = 1 kg k1 = 24 N/m k2 = 3 N/m k3 = 3 N/m. Take c1 = c2 = c3 = 0.

19. c. Derive the expression for natural frequency of a two rotor system with a neat
sketch.
d. A shaft free to rotate carries a flywheel with I 1 = 2 kg m2 at one end and I2 =
4 kg m2 at the other. The shaft connecting them has a stiffness of 4
MNm/rad. Calculate the natural frequency and the position of the node.
20. c.
A uniform string of length l and a large initial tension S stretched between
two supports is displaced laterally through a distance do at the centre as
shown in fig and is released at t=0 find the equation of motion for the string

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 d. Find the frequency of the given system where M1=5 Kg,M2=M3=4 Kg,
K1=3 KN/m, K2=K3= 2 KN/m using Matrix inverse iteration method