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Building Vibrations:
Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation
Henri Gavin and John Dolbow
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke University, Box 90287
Durham, NC 27708-0287
http://weave.duke.edu/
HPGavin@Duke.edu
Using This Tutorial Interactively:
- Equations: In this tutorial, if you need help understanding what a variable represents in an equation, use your mouse to roll over that variable, and a short explanation will pop up.
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Links: Some of the links in this tutorial are external, while others will send you to other pages in the tutorial.
To return to the page you were reading, use the back button on your browser.
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Questions: On some pages, there are multiple choice questions to test your understanding of the material.
Choose an answer by clicking on the circle next to the answer you think is correct.
Then, click on the "Check Answers" button and a window will pop up telling you if you are right or wrong.
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Suggested Experiments: Some pages suggest various experimental runs to make in order to see the concepts described.
Go to the appropriate section of the module, run the experiment, looking for the details noted in the tutorial, then go back to the tutorial and continue.
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Glossary: Some terminology in the module is linked to its definition in the glossary. If you need a definition of a term in the glossary, click on the word, and the appropriate portion of the glossary will be returned to you.
Before continuing, please note the time. When you complete the evaluation questions, you will be asked how much time you spent working on this web-based lab.
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Henri P Gavin
2002-03-30