Engineering Dynamics

Fully revised and updated, the new edition of Engineering Dynamics provides a comprehensive, self-contained and accessible treatment of classical dynamics. All chapters have been reworked to enhance student understanding, and new features include a stronger emphasis on computational methods, including rich examples using both Matlab and Python; new capstone computational examples extend student understanding, including modelling the flight of a rocket and the unsteady rolling of a disk. The coverage of Lagrange's equations is improved, spanning simple systems and systems relevant to engineers. It provides students with clear, systematic methods for solving problems in dynamics, demonstrates how to solve equations of motion numerically, and explains all mathematical operators. Including over 150 real-world examples to motivate student learning, over 400 homework problems, and accompanied online by Matlab and Python repositories and supplemental material, the new edition of this classic is ideal for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering.

Jerry H. Ginsberg is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was the inaugural Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems. His activities include seminal contributions in nonlinear dynamics, shell vibrations, dynamic stability of pipes, nonlinear acoustics, shock response of submerged structures, acoustic-structure interaction, and experimental modal analysis. Among his awards are the Per Bruel Gold Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the Trent-Crede Silver Medal and the Rossing Prize for Acoustics Education from Acoustical Society and America Awards (ASA); the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator in Mechanics Education Award from American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of the Year in 1994. His other books include Advanced Engineering Dynamics (1999), Statics and Dynamics (1995) and Structural Vibrations (2001). He is a Fellow of the ASA and ASME.

Matthew Allen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, with twenty years of experience in teaching engineering dynamics, five years at BYU and fifteen years teaching in the Engineering Mechanics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also PI of an active research group responsible for several advances in experimental methods, numerical techniques and reduced order modelling and for nonlinear dynamic systems.

Philip A. Voglewede is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University. He has earned four departmental outstanding teacher awards, nine college outstanding teacher awards, and the University's 2015 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. He has over twenty years of experience in teaching engineering dynamics.