1. Determine the equivalent spring constant for the systems shown:
1 Dr. Ahmed Hegazy
Egyptian Academy for Engineering and Advanced Technology Third year of Mechanical Engineering Department (Mechatronics) MEC 362: Mechanical Vibrations ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 2. How many Degrees of Freedoms in the following Systems:
3. For the simple pendulum shown:
a. Find the tension in the string.
b. Derive the equation of motion using Newton’s 2nd law. c. Derive the equation of motion using work and energy principle.