Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers
Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers
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Suitable for both senior-level and first-year graduate courses, this fully revised edition provides a unique and systematic treatment of engineering dynamics that covers Newton–Euler and Lagrangian approaches. New to this edition are: two completely revised chapters on the constraints on, and potential energies for, rigid bodies, and the dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies; clearer discussion on coordinate singularities and their relation to mass matrices and configuration manifolds; additional discussion of contravariant basis vectors and dual Euler basis vectors, as well as related works in robotics; improved coverage of navigation equations; inclusion of a 350-page solutions manual for instructors, available online; a fully updated reference list. Numerous structured examples, discussion of various applications, and exercises covering a wide range of topics are included throughout, and source code for exercises, and simulations of systems are available online.
- Includes two completely revised chapters on the constraints on, and potential energies for, rigid bodies, and the dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies
- Accompanied online by a 350-page solutions manual for instructors, as well as source code for exercises, and simulations of systems
- Includes numerous structured examples, discussion of various applications, and exercises covering a wide range of topics
Reviews & endorsements
'This book is unusual amongst dynamics books in that it treats rotation as an operator, a tensor, which acts on vectors. The more common approach in other books is to treat rotation, indirectly, as a matrix used for a change of coordinates. O'Reilly's rotation-is-a-tensor approach is common in continuum mechanics and is, I think, simply better. It allows direct derivation of the various component formulas without notational tricks.' Andy Ruina, Cornell University
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Table of Contents
- Part I. A Single Particle:
- 1. Kinematics of a particle
- 2. Kinetics of a particle
- 3. Lagrange's equations of motion for a single particle
- Part II. A System of Particles:
- 4. Equations of motion for a system of particles
- 5. Dynamics of systems of particles
- Part III. A Single Rigid Body:
- 6. Representations of rotations
- 7. Kinematics of rigid bodies
- 8. Constraints on and potential energies for a rigid body
- 9. Kinetics of a rigid body
- 10. Lagrange's equations of motion for a single rigid body
- Part IV. Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies:
- 11. Dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies.
