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Engineering Dynamics : a Primer /

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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 an affordable compliment to the standard texts on the subject in which the gap between the theory presented and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Reilly, Oliver M.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
Subjects:
Physics.
Mathematics.
Mechanics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Weekly Course Content
  • Elementary Particle Dynamics
  • Particles and Cylindrical Polar Coordinates
  • Particles and Space Curves
  • Frictional Forces and Spring Forces
  • Power, Work and Energy
  • Momenta, Impulses and Collisions
  • Systems of Particles
  • Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies
  • Kinetics of a Rigid Body
  • Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies
  • Appendix: Preliminaries on Vectors and Calculus
  • Bibliography.