Lecture Notes on Theoretical Mechanics

• Main Author: Liu, Jianlin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Continuum physics.; Mechanical engineering.; Civil engineering.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Classical and Continuum Physics.; Mechanical Engineering.; Civil Engineering.

This book addresses a range of basic and essential topics, selected from the author's teaching and research activities, offering a comprehensive guide in three parts: Statics, Kinematics and Kinetics. Chapter 1 briefly discusses the history of classical and modern mechanics, while Chapter 2, pr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Preliminary knowledge
• Fundamentals of statics
• Force analysis
• Simplification of a force group
• Equilibrium of the general coplanar force gruop
• Center of the parallel force group
• Motion of a particle
• Basic motion of the rigid body
• Planar motion of the rigid body
• Newton's laws of motion
• Theorem of momentum
• Theorem of angular momentum
• Theorem of kinetic energy
• Summary.