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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 February 2020
      30 January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108644297
      9781108494212
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108644297
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.21kg, 540 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Engineering, Engineering Design, Kinematics, and Robotics, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics

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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.

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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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