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1.1 Give brief answers to the following:

1. Give two examples each of the bad and the good effects of vibration.
2. What are the three elementary parts of a vibrating system?
3. Define the number of degrees of freedom of a vibrating system.
4. What is the difference between a discrete and a continuous system? Is it possible to solve
any vibration problem as a discrete one?
5. In vibration analysis, can damping always be disregarded?