ANALYTICAL MECHANICS: A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE ON THE DYNAMICS OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS (REPRINT EDITION) - Hardcover

Papastavridis, John G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814338710 ISBN 13: 9789814338714

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2014

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, treatise on the energetic mechanics of Lagrange and Hamilton, that is, classical analytical dynamics, and its principal applications to constrained systems (contact, rolling, and servoconstraints). It is a book on advanced dynamics from a unified viewpoint, namely, the kinetic principle of virtual work, or principle of Lagrange. As such, it continues, renovates, and expands the grand tradition laid by such mechanics masters as Appell, Maggi, Whittaker, Heun, Hamel, Chetaev, Synge, Pars, Luré, Gantmacher, Neimark, and Fufaev. Many completely solved examples complement the theory, along with many problems (all of the latter with their answers and many of them with hints). Although written at an advanced level, the topics covered in this 1400-page volume (the most extensive ever written on analytical mechanics) are eminently readable and inclusive. It is of interest to engineers, physicists, and mathematicians; advanced undergraduate and graduate students and teachers; researchers and professionals; all will find this encyclopedic work an extraordinary asset; for classroom use or self-study. In this edition, corrections (of the original edition, 2002) have been incorporated.

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"A monumental treatise ... which is going to become a reference book on the subject ... It should not be missed by anybody working in the area of analytical dynamics or only wanting to understand major problems of the subject ... This landmark reference source ... [is] the most comprehensive exposition available of the advanced engineering-oriented dynamics." -- Zentralblatt fur Math.

"This unique treatise should be part of every scientific library and scholarly collection in engineering science." -- IEEE Control Systems Magazine

"I recommend without hesitation Prof Papastravridis' treatise as a reference source to be acquired by every library of Mathematics, Physics, or Mechanical/Aeronautical/Electrical Engineering department. It is a different book, especially in our Internet era where instant satisfaction is often the primary (sometimes sole) goal of the student or researcher. Putting together 1392 (!!) pages of carefully prepared text and 172 figures (which then become somehow sparse) represents a major effort, to say the least." -- Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

"Recipient of the annual competition award, in engineering, of the Association of American Publishers." -- The Outstanding Professional and Scholarly Titles of 2002 (March 2003)

"Unique in Contents and Perspective ... has no Competition in Depth and Breadth." -- Dr George Simitses, Professor of Engineering Science, Mechanics, and Aerospace Engineering University of Cincinatti and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

"Probably the best of its kind and likely to become standard reference." -- Dr Alex Dalgarno, FRS, member of US National Academy of Sciences, and "father of molecular astrophysics" and Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University, and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9814338710
• ISBN 13: 9789814338714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1392