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Acknowledgements
Some of the problems first appeared in University of London B.Sc. (Eng) Degree Examinations, set for students of Imperial College, London. The section on random vibration has been reproduced with permission from the Mechanical Engineers Reference Book, 12th edn, Butterworth - Heinemann, 1993.