ATTENTION has been directed in more than one recent review to the tendency to over elaboration in the standard treatises to which an English reader would naturally turn for information on such ...

Topics include geometry of rigid bodies, rotating bodies, Lagrangian mechanics and variational principles, conservation of energy and momentum, symmetries, impact dynamics, and numerical methods that ...

The Theory of Screws; a Study in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body. By R. S. Ball, Andrews' Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin; and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. (Dublin: Hodges ...

Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Mass centers and moments of inertia of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies in planar motion. Kinetics of particles. Moments of inertia of rigid bodies. This course ...

This module introduces you to the concepts that define the dynamics of structures and machines. There are two main topics: structural vibration and rigid body mechanics. In structural vibration, you ...

The aim of this module is to develop understanding of the fundamental concepts governing the dynamics of structures and machines for aerospace engineering. It covers two principal areas: structural ...