Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations. Ronald J. Anderson

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      Then, the term which appears in Equation 1.59 can be approximated by the product of these two expressions

      (1.60)

      We then say that the nonlinear term can be neglected as being negligibly small compared to the linear term since is a small angle. This is at the heart of the linearization process. The linearized EOM becomes

      (1.61)

      Now we rearrange this to separate the constant terms from the terms with and its derivatives. The result is

      (1.62)

where the constant term is exactly the same as the equilibrium condition stated in Equation 1.47 and it is identically equal to zero by definition so it can be removed from the equation of motion. This will always be the case for vibrational systems. As we progress through the following chapters, we will often say something to the effect of “the gravitational forces are canceled out by preloads in the springs so they can be ignored” where we actually mean that our equations of motion are written for small motions away from an equilibrium state and that we need only be concerned with how the forces in elements change as the system moves slightly away from equilibrium. There will be forces holding the system in equilibrium and they may be large but they always add up to zero. The equilibrium condition for the bead is actually a statement that the moment that the gravitational force exerts about point is exactly equal and opposite to the moment about due to the centripetal acceleration.

      It remains to pick a suitable equilibrium state from the three we found in Subsection 1.2.2. Of these, the most interesting is the one where the bead is not below or above point . That is, consider the case where