MECH&AE 169A · MAE 169AIntroduction to Mechanical Vibrations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Fundamentals of vibration theory and applications. Free, forced, and transient vibration of one and two degrees of freedom systems, including damping. Normal modes, coupling, and normal coordinates. Vibration isolation devices, vibrations of continuous systems.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101, 102, 107.
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MECH&AE 169A
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MECH&AE 107Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity2 more beneath
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
3 direct requisites. Showing 25 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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MECH&AE 169A
- MECH&AE 255AAdvanced Dynamics
- MECH&AE 255BMathematical Methods in Dynamics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.