MAE 130C HW#1 SOLUTIONS Problem 1 (1.

31) Using the Lagrangian Method to solve the problem:

No kinetic energy or dissipated energy in the system.

Since the force is being applied on our x3 coordinate, we write x1 and x2 in terms of x3 as above and then substitute.

Problem 2 (1.37) In Parallel:

For this problem, I will just do the sum of the forces in the y-direction:

In Series:

For series I will use the lagrangian method:

(1)

(2) Since there are no numerical values, solving for from equation (1) will return an ugly expression. So, we are just going to say that one of the real roots to equation (1) is:

Plugging the above into equation (2) will give the following:

Problem 3 (1.55) a) In parallel:

No kinetic energy or potential energy in the system and I am just assuming that there is a force applied (no real need for it).

b) In series:

, ,

I will just substiture for

in the last equation to get an expression of the form:

First get an expression for from the first expression, plug that into the second to get an expression for to finally plug into the last equation. Simplifying gives the following:

c)

The easiest way to do this problem is to simply equate the dissipated energy of the 3 damper system as shown in the figure to that of an equivalent damper placed at c1. Therefore, we get the following:

Now all we have to do is find the relationshop between generalized coordinates. Assuming small angle displacements, we obtain the following:

Substituting back into the equation:

Problem 4 (1.73)
I'm going to call the force given "W" to not confuse it with the dissipated energy "F"

Since the force is acting on the

coordinate, I will relate the other two coordinates to

Therefore, the answer for the equivalent damping constant after plugging in numerical values: 9.0625 N-s/m

Problem 5 (Q1a) You can ignore the point distribution, that was from last year's quiz.