MECH&AE 169A
Introduction 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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101, 102, 107.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 169A
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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.





