The classical approach to teaching undergraduate engineering dynamics is to break the subject into several compartments. Usually, kinematics and kinetics of particles, kinematics and kinetics of systems of particles, and kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies. This compartmentalization often leaves a student unprepared to perform real analysis because the real world is not compartmentalized. No one will tell practicing Engineers whether or not they should apply rigid body analysis or kinematics alone in a real situation. In this text the authors attempt to address compartmentalization by providing a general procedure for attacking problems. By using the procedure for simple and complex problems we will no longer need to “classify” the problem before starting its analysis. The main drawback to this is that it will take longer to solve problems. Rather than relating new problems back to “one just like it,” the student is expected to attack it fresh. The authors feel that this methodology will provide a more lasting and beneficial tool called Dynamics.

I Background

1 - Dynamics, ACME and Trebuchets

II Translating Systems

2 - Motion - Kinematics

3 - Dynamics - Kinetics

4 - Constraints 133 4.1 Constraints

5 - Handling Unknown Forces - Momentum

6 - Simulation and Design

7 - Part II Summary

III General Motion

8 - Relative Motion - Kinematics

9 - Dynamics of Bodies - Kinetics

10 - Multibody and Contact Constraints

11 - Unknown Forces/Moments - Total Momentum

12 - Simulation and Design

13 - Part III Summary

IV Energy Methods

14 - Energy Methods for Simple Systems

15 - Energy Methods for Complex Systems

16 - Simulation and Design 695

V Appendix 701

Index