This book bridges the gap between elementary dynamics and advanced specialist applications in engineering. A uniform approach has adopted using standard terminology and notation in several subject areas, including road vehicle stability, aircraft stability and robotics. The book discussed reappraisal of Newtonian principles to ensure that definitions and symbols, analytical dynamics typified by the methods of language and by Hamilton’s principle, rigid body dynamics to include Gyroscopic Phenomena and the stability of spinning bodies, four types of vehicle: satellites, rockets, aircraft and cars, fundamentals of the dynamics of one-dimensional continuous media, the study into tree dimensions and discusses the type of wave that can exist within the medium and on its surface, Reflection and Refraction, conventional dynamics and the highly specialized and distinctive approach used in robotics, brief excursion into a special theory of relativity mainly to define the Boundaries of Newtonian Dynamics and to reappraise the fundamental definitions. Engineering students can get the advanced dynamics that they have to know.
1. Newtonian Mechanics
2. Lagrange’s Equations
3. Hamilton’s principle
4. Rigid body motion in three Dimensions
5. Dynamics of Vehicle
6. Impact and one-Dimensional Wave Propagation
7. Wave in a three-Dimensional Elastic Solid
8. Robot Arm Dynamics
9. Relativity
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