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Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers
Newton-Euler and Lagrangian Mechanics

2nd Edition

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  • Date Published: January 2020
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108494212

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  • Suitable for both senior-level and first-year graduate courses, this fully revised edition provides a unique and systematic treatment of engineering dynamics that covers Newton–Euler and Lagrangian approaches. New to this edition are: two completely revised chapters on the constraints on, and potential energies for, rigid bodies, and the dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies; clearer discussion on coordinate singularities and their relation to mass matrices and configuration manifolds; additional discussion of contravariant basis vectors and dual Euler basis vectors, as well as related works in robotics; improved coverage of navigation equations; inclusion of a 350-page solutions manual for instructors, available online; a fully updated reference list. Numerous structured examples, discussion of various applications, and exercises covering a wide range of topics are included throughout, and source code for exercises, and simulations of systems are available online.

    • Includes two completely revised chapters on the constraints on, and potential energies for, rigid bodies, and the dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies
    • Accompanied online by a 350-page solutions manual for instructors, as well as source code for exercises, and simulations of systems
    • Includes numerous structured examples, discussion of various applications, and exercises covering a wide range of topics
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    'This book is unusual amongst dynamics books in that it treats rotation as an operator, a tensor, which acts on vectors. The more common approach in other books is to treat rotation, indirectly, as a matrix used for a change of coordinates. O'Reilly's rotation-is-a-tensor approach is common in continuum mechanics and is, I think, simply better. It allows direct derivation of the various component formulas without notational tricks.' Andy Ruina, Cornell University

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    • Edition: 2nd Edition
    • Date Published: January 2020
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108494212
    • length: 540 pages
    • dimensions: 253 x 179 x 29 mm
    • weight: 1.21kg
    • contains: 170 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. A Single Particle:
    1. Kinematics of a particle
    2. Kinetics of a particle
    3. Lagrange's equations of motion for a single particle
    Part II. A System of Particles:
    4. Equations of motion for a system of particles
    5. Dynamics of systems of particles
    Part III. A Single Rigid Body:
    6. Representations of rotations
    7. Kinematics of rigid bodies
    8. Constraints on and potential energies for a rigid body
    9. Kinetics of a rigid body
    10. Lagrange's equations of motion for a single rigid body
    Part IV. Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies:
    11. Dynamics of systems of particles and rigid bodies.

  • Author

    Oliver M. O'Reilly, University of California, Berkeley
    Oliver M. O'Reilly is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is the author of several textbooks, has co-authored over 100 papers in archival journals, and is the recipient of multiple teaching awards including a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley.

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