Vibration

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Vibration

Is this really the definition of vibration? I think that a vibration is a mechanical oscillation, characterised by the interaction between inertia and some restoring force. Thus pendulum, rigid body and elastic body all vibrate. Can anyone justify the current (unhelpful in my view) definition? Some vibrations propagate and are waves. Part of the reason for getting involved here is that I have just written Rossby wave and would like there to be a general reference somewhere to ''restoring force''. We could then get all waves articles in uniform layout. Vibration would be a good place to put the general principle of ''restoring force'' but not with the current definition. User:Cutler 22:24, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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