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Thomas Breunung

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EMA/ME 440

Mechanical Vibrations

3 credits

Harmonic motion; natural frequencies and vibration of damped and undamped single and multi-degree of freedom systems; general theory of free, forced, and transient vibrations modal analysis; lumped-mass modeling; balancing; vibration absorbers and tuned mass dampers; method of matrix equation formulation and solution; finite element modeling.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.17 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.11 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Thomas Breunung

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027EMA 489Honors in Research II
Spring 2027EMA 599Independent Study
Spring 2027EMA/ME 440Mechanical Vibrations
Spring 2027ME 790Master's Research and Thesis
Spring 2027ME 890Phd Research and Thesis
Spring 2027ME 990Dissertator Research and Thesis
Fall 2026EMA 489Honors in Research II
Fall 2026ME 790Master's Research and Thesis
Fall 2026ME 890Phd Research and Thesis
Fall 2026ME 990Dissertator Research and Thesis

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