[.ca] An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations (ISBN 0471845450)

good presentation on a hard topic, but outdated:
The title more or less covers the idea -- the book is well written. Steidel presents the topics in a way the reader can absorb the material without feeling overwhelmed by the math involved. The book covers only introductory material, also including multi degree of freedom systems, continuous systems, and random vibrations. There are numerous GOOD examples and over 500 exercises, which is a lot for a textbook of this type. Sadly, no computer applications are presented in the book, this edition being from 1989, and should any new edition be in the works, it MUST contain computer applications to be of any use. Not using computers limits the student to working with 2 degree of freedom systems, no more. I'd suggest this book as backup for other more advanced and up to date books that do include modern applications but lack the thorough explanations in Steidel's book. The reader might like to check my comments on Thomson's Vibration book.

Out dated:
The supplied examples are somewhat helful but the book lacks computer applications