Talk:Vibration

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Is this really the definition of vibration? I think that a vibration is a mechanical oscillation, characterised by the interaction between inertia and some restoring force. Thus pendulum, rigid body and elastic body all vibrate. Can anyone justify the current (unhelpful in my view) definition? Some vibrations propagate and are waves. Part of the reason for getting involved here is that I have just written Rossby wave and would like there to be a general reference somewhere to restoring force. We could then get all waves articles in uniform layout. Vibration would be a good place to put the general principle of restoring force but not with the current definition. Cutler 22:24, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I totally agree.

The use of vibration in enhancing sports performance must surely be a sphere of very limited interest relative to the importance of vibration in mechanical engineering. Mr. Bosco - could you move the references to your fine work to a sub-section of vibration ?

I created a new page for that. Greglocock 22:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
which has now been deleted because the whole thing was a copyvio. No good deed goes unpunished. Greglocock 23:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Cars on rough roads

Lzyvtl why do you keep removing them, they are a classic example that most people have experienced, unlike earthquakes? Greglocock 22:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Damping

Shouldn't other damping models be adressed? Structural damping (linear hysteretic) is so common that a section might be included to explain it. And maybe a short reference to Coulomb's and viscoelastic models wouldn't be bad... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.136.128.14 (talk) 18:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Religious meaning

This is a perfect article on vibration as a physical concept. But in English, the word is also used with metaphysical meanings, and the article is somewhat incomplete with an explanation of that - or at least a disambiguation page. Natha 67.52.81.242 (talk) 19:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we could have a disambiguation page pointing at pseudoscience for those spiritual vibration freaks? 81.151.13.18 (talk) 18:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speed

Is there any specific paragraph on anything related to "speed" of vibration. New Babylon 2 (talk) 03:13, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


sound is when cat's eat corndogs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.253.129.79 (talk) 19:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New image

I was thinking that Image:Simple harmonic oscillator.gif would be great for somewhere in the article about non-damping vibration? I'm no expert on this, so I figured that someone would know where to put this. Thanks!

--pbroks13talk? 02:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I put the gif in the undamped section.

Lzyvzl (talk) 03:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)