Vibration & Dynamics Animations

These Animation function files animate the motion of some common vibration and dynamics systems for

These function files provide animations and simultaneous plots for some common vibration and dynamics problems, designed for use in undergraduate engineering courses. The inputs to the functions are the time array and position coordinate arrays which describe the motion of the system (i.e., the analytical or numerical solution to the equations of motion).

To use each file, download it into your search path, or current directory, and then type help filename.
In general, to use the function you must provide the time and position arrays to be plotted and animated.

The geometrical and other parameters of the functions can be changed by opening and editing the function files (comments are provided)

For a further description of how these functions can be used (and how others like them can be created), see:

Nordenholz, T., "Animation as the Final Step in the Dynamics Experience", Proceedings of the 2006 Annual ASEE Conference)