DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES
WITH
SOLUTION MANUAL
BY
S. L. LONEY
Professor of Mathematics
Royal Holloway College
University of London, Englifield Green, Surrey, UK
Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK
Kindle Edition
M-A-T-H
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DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES
11 MOMENTS AND PRODUCTS OF INERTIA:
PRINCIPAL AXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
12 D’ ALEMBERT’S PRINCIPLE
THE GENERAL EQUATIONS OF MOTION . . . . . . . . . . 31
13 MOTION ABOUT A FIXED AXIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
14 MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS. FINITE FORCES . 83
15 MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS. IMPULSIVE
FORCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
16 INSTANTANEOUS CENTRE. ANGULAR
VELOCITIES. MOTION IN THREE DIMENSIONS . . . 161
17 ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSERVATION
OF MOMENTUM AND CONSERVATION OF
ENERGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
18 LAGRANGE’S EQUATIONS IN
GENERALISED COORDINATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
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19 SMALL OSCILLATIONS: INITIAL MOTIONS.
TENDENCY TO BREAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
20 MOTION OF A TOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
22 MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
ON THE SOLUTION OF SOME OF
THE MORE COMMON FORMS OF
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
SOLUTION MANUAL
11 MOMENTS AND PRODUCTS OF INERTIA:
PRINCIPAL AXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
12 D’ ALEMBERT’S PRINCIPLE
THE GENERAL EQUATIONS OF MOTION . . . . . . . . . . 31
13 MOTION ABOUT A FIXED AXIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
14 MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS. FINITE FORCES . 83
15 MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS. IMPULSIVE
FORCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137