Potential mechanical vibration resources to fork/use

[moorepants]

Use this issue to curate a list of various resources we could make use of.

Open Access Text

• Incomplete Mechanical Vibrations Wikibook CC-BY-SA
• Vibration Wikipedia page CC-BY-SA
  • Wikimedia vibration animations
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mechanical_vibrations
• Tutorial on mechanical vibrations CC-BY-SA-NC: http://www.mechanicalvibration.com/tutorial.html
• Allen Downey's new book http://greenteapress.com/wp/modsimpy/

Open Courses

• MIT Opencourseware Dynamics Class (includes some vibration stuff and lagrange's method) CC-BY-NC-SA
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_d8CQrCYUw&list=PLFS4phoyyovSPXdn-M2nWV9-54imYJkmS
  • https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-003j-dynamics-and-vibration-13-013j-fall-2002/index.htm
• Cosmo Learning course: https://cosmolearning.org/courses/mechanical-vibrations-537/
• IIT Guwahti Course: http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2684/Mechanical-Vibrations
• Course videos from Indian school: http://nptel.ac.in/courses/112103112/

Open Software

• Python vibration_toolbox ?MIT?
  • https://github.com/vibrationtoolbox/vibration_toolbox
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Mechanical Vibrations Jupyter Notebooks CC-BY 4.0:
  • http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/%7Ejev9637/MCHE485.html
  • https://github.com/DocVaughan/MCHE485---Mechanical-Vibrations
  • One of the student's projects: https://github.com/mjbegneaud/Mechanical-Vibrations
• John Cook blog post on vibrations:
  • https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/19/mechanical-vibrations/
  • Stefan's code: https://github.com/stefanv/vibrations

Proprietary Software

• Web based mechanical spring simulator
  • https://github.com/mburke13/mechanical-vibrations
  • http://mburke13.github.io/mechanical-vibrations/
  • No apparent license
• Some undocumented and unlicensed Matlab code:
  • https://github.com/AtomicDragon/Mechanical-Vibrations

Proprietary Texts

• Anil Rao's Course Notes (essentially a free textbook) copyrighted: http://vdol.mae.ufl.edu/CourseNotes/EML4220/vibrations.pdf

Various Course Websites and Syllabi

• http://www.me.metu.edu.tr/courses/me429/obj_and_SLO.html
• Stanford syllabus: https://web.stanford.edu/group/frg/course_work/AA242B/CA-AA242B-Syllabus.pdf
• Some course slides and syllabus: https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~cornwell/courses/em406/admin406.htm
• https://www.engr.uconn.edu/me/pdf/S07-ME-220.pdf
• Nice learning objectives: http://www.engr.iupui.edu/departments/me/courses/me/56300.php

Other

• This quant course materials is super nice: https://lectures.quantecon.org/
• http://practical.engineering/blog/2016/2/14/tuned-mass-dampers-in-skyscrapers

[moorepants]

We need to copy the resources from here that would be useful to our students to the course web page.

[ixjlyons]

I looked over the items here and added some to the resources page: https://moorepants.github.io/eng122/pages/resources.html

[ixjlyons]

There are some cool little javascript applets with exercises on http://mathlets.org/mathlets, some of which are vibrations related. CC-BY