EBOOK: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (SI units)

Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for the Study of Dynamics

Chapter 2 Particle Kinematics

Chapter 3 Force and Acceleration Methods for Particles

Chapter 4 Energy Methods for Particles

Chapter 5 Momentum Methods for Particles

Chapter 6 Planar Rigid Body Kinematics

Chapter 7 Newton-Euler Equations for Planar Rigid Body Motion

Chapter 8 Energy and Momentum Methods for Rigid Bodies

Chapter 9 Mechanical Vibrations

Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

(Chapter 10 available online)

Appendix A Mass Moments of Inertia

Appendix B Angular Momentum of a Rigid Body

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