Is there any difference between Oscillation & Vibration? If your answer is Yes then what is the difference?

Question

This question is related to VIIth class Science book of N.C.E.R.t

Answer 1

Oscillation is a periodic movement which involves to and fro motion, when u suspend a particle or object from a certain height.
For ex.- Movement of pendulumn

Vibration is also a periodic movement that takes place vigorously at fixed position(either up and down or sideways).For ex.-when u beat a steel plate forcefully, u observe the movement in plate, ththat is vibration. And best of luck for ur classes and enjoy studies especially science.

Answer 2

Vibration And Oscillation

Answer 3

Yes there is a difference between oscillation and vibration.
Oscillation is the continuous and a periodic movement(swinging) of anything, like a pendulum, or a swing.
Vibration is the moving of particles vigourously, (usually up and down) in their fixed position. Vibrations are caused due to waves.

Answer 4

Oscillation is the periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with oscillation. Oscillations occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.

Vibration refers to mechanical motion. The motion may be:

Periodic (in the form of oscillations)
Aperiodic (in the form of random noise)
A mixture of the two
Vibration is occasionally desirable. For example the motion of a tuning fork, the reed in a woodwind instrument or harmonica, or the cone of a loudspeaker is desirable vibration, necessary for the correct functioning of the various devices.

The vibrating alert in a cell phone or the much larger vibrations of a vibratory compactor are additional examples where the vibration is desired.

More often, vibration is undesirable, wasting energy and creating unwanted sound. For example, the motions of engines, electric motors, or any mechanical device in operation are usually unwanted vibrations. Such vibrations can be caused by imbalances in the rotating parts, uneven friction, the meshing of gear teeth, parts that are dragging together, etc. Careful designs usually minimize unwanted vibrations or add dampers to suppress their transmission outside of the point of generation.

Vibrations produce music, which is sound. Sound produces vibrations in materials because sound consists of pressure waves in air (or other materials). The pressure in the waves "pushes" on objects (as you would expect pressure to do), but being a wave, it is changing rapidly, pushing harder and softer repeatedly many times a second. This pushing causes the material subjected to the sound to vibrate.

Oscillations examples

[edit] Examples
See also: list of wave topics


[edit] Mechanical
Pendulum
Double pendulum
Foucault pendulum
String instruments
Vibrating string
Helmholtz resonator
Tacoma Narrows Bridge - Galloping Gertie, an example of a high Q system
Tuning fork
Playground swing

[edit] Electrical
Armstrong oscillator
Astable multivibrator
Blocking oscillator
Clapp oscillator
Colpitts oscillator
Crystal oscillator
Electronic oscillator
Hartley oscillator
Relaxation oscillator
RLC circuit
Wien bridge oscillator
Royer oscillator
Vačkář oscillator
Oscillistor

[edit] Electro-mechanical
Microphone
Loudspeaker

[edit] Biological
Prey-predator systems

[edit] Human
Pilot-induced oscillation
Voice production
Brain waves
"Good vibrations"

[edit] Economic and social
Business cycle

[edit] Climate and geophysics
Chandler wobble
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Quasi-biennial oscillation
Tides in the Earth's oceans

[edit] Chemical
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

Answer 5

oscillation is the periodic to and fro motion of a body about a mean(equilibrium) position. vibration is the kind of oscillation where the body moves along a straight path(in oscillation it may move along a straight or a curved path).

Answer 6

Oscillations are stable moment between two paremtrtic values where as vibration is unstable moment between two parametric values. Oscillators are stable dynamic systems where as Filters are unstable ones.

Answer 7

oscillation having both positive and negative peaks having equal number. oscillations having some frequency where as vibrations having no frequencies. vibrations having no specific frequency.vibrations are like circles

Answer 8

Oscillation means to and fro motion.
Frequency is due to vibration.

Answer 9

yes there is a great diffrence between oscillation and vibration

oscillation means to move to and fro about a point in a fixed arc e.g. on a swing it comes to and fro about its top most positions

vibrations means to move up and down very fast

Answer 10

Yes! oscillation is going around in circle and I don't have to say what vibrate is (buzz buzz)