Engineering Dynamics A Primer /

• Main Author: O'Reilly, Oliver M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: Second.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Continuum physics.; Mechanics.; Continuum mechanics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Classical Continuum Physics.

This primer is intended to provide the theoretical background for the standard undergraduate, mechanical engineering course in dynamics. It grew out of the author's desire to provide a compliment to the standard texts on the subject in which the gap between the theory presented and the problems...

Table of Contents:

• Dynamics of a Single Particle
• Elementary Particle Dynamics
• Particles and Cylindrical Polar Coordinates
• Particles and Space Curves
• Friction Forces and Spring Forces
• Power, Work, and Energy
• Dynamics of a System of Particles
• Momenta, Impulses, and Collisions
• Dynamics of Systems of Particles
• Dynamics of a Single Rigid Bodies
• Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies
• Kinetics of a Rigid Body
• Dynamics of Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies
• Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies
• Appendices
• Preliminaries on Vectors and Calculus
• Weekly Course Content and Notation in Other Texts.