INTRODUCTION:

Mechanical vibration is consists of few types, which is free vibration and force vibration. This
experiment it involve the free vibrational of mass spring system for single degree of freedom.
The fundamental of free vibrational analysis can be understood by studying the simple working
mechanism of mass spring system for single degree of freedom.
Free vibration is occurring when the disturbance imitating the system, it will oscillate under the
action of the force without the disturbance of the external forces. This free vibrational system
consists of two types of system which is discrete and continuous system. Discrete system is
representing by the discrete quantities for the physical quantities and the system manner is
described by the ordinary differential equations. For the continuous system the physical
quantities is represent by continuous quantities and the system behaviours it explain by partial
differential equation which has the infinite degree of freedom of the system.
For this experiment, the purpose it to study free vibration of the mass spring system for single
degree of freedom. The characteristics the going to be study are natural frequency, spring
stiffness and the decay rate of the one degree of freedom mass spring system by the varies of
mass.