| Description |
203 pages |
| Contents |
1. Elementary Particle Dynamics -- 2. Particles and Cylindrical Polar Coordinates -- 3. Particles and Space Curves -- 4. Friction Forces and Spring Forces -- 5. Power, Work, and Energy -- 6. Momenta, Impulses, and Collisions -- 7. Systems of Particles -- 8. Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies -- 9. Kinetics of a Rigid Body -- 10. Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies -- A. Preliminaries on Vectors and Calculus |
| Summary |
"This book is a primer for an undergraduate engineering dynamics course. It has three intended audiences: students enrolled in such a course, graduate students refreshing their former coursework, and teachers. In the primer, the theoretical background necessary to tackle most of the problems presented in an undergraduate engineering dynamics text is presented. This theory is then illuminated using several carefully worked examples. For the examples, a systematic four-step approach is employed throughout." "The material in the primer has three divisions: single particle dynamics, dynamics of systems of particles, and the dynamics of rigid bodies. These three classes of systems are then combined in the closing chapter. To assist readers, each of the ten chapters in the primer has a summary section and a set of brief exercises."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Dynamics.
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| LC no. |
00045032 |
| ISBN |
0387951458 softcover alkaline paper |
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