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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tongue, Benson H.
Principles of vibration / Benson H. Tongue.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Vibration. I. Title
TA355.T64 1996
620.2 dc20 95-45031

Printing (last digit): 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To my wife, Claire, without whom this book definitely would never have been written.

A subject is difficult only so long as you don't understand it. Once you do, it becomes intuitively obvious.

Benson Tongue (1957 present)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book wouldn't exist without contributions from many people. My views on the whole field of dynamics were molded by my Ph.D. advisor, Earl H. Dowell, a masterful researcher whose abilities span an impressive range and whose ability to see the simple idea that underlies a confusingly complex phenomenon is much admired (by me) and but poorly approximated.

Many students have given me the benefit of their reactions to this material, both in lecture notes and in book form, and their input has led to a...