MECHANICAL VIBRATION METHODS FOR STUDYING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID MATERIALS -- MECHANICAL VIBRATION METHODS FOR STUDYING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID MATERIALS -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 PRELIMINARY -- Abstract -- A. Elasticity -- B. Mechanical Vibration -- Chapter 3 PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- Abstract -- A. Internal Friction of Lead -- B. Internal Friction of Quartz -- C. Internal Friction of Crystals under Pressure -- D. Internal Friction of Solid Helium -- E. Melting of Helium Crystal -- F. Melting of Ice Crystal -- G. Internal Friction in Normal-Conducting Aluminum -- H. Internal Friction in Superconducting Aluminum -- I. Higher-Order Elastic Constants -- J. Sound-Sound Interaction -- K. Nonlinear Elasticity in Whiskers -- Chapter 4 RECENT RESEARCH -- Abstract -- A. Viscosity of Inorganic and Organic Glasses -- f~0 Hz -- B. Internal Friction of Polystyrene -- f=0.001~10 Hz -- C. Internal Friction of Various Metallic Glasses -- f~1 Hz -- D. Internal Friction of Metallic Glass -- f~1 Hz -- E. Internal Friction of Metallic Glass -- f=0.2~25 Hz -- F. Acoustic Measurements in Polystyrene -- f = 5 MHz, 10 GHz -- References -- Index -- Blank Page.