Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics: A Classical Introduction to Holonomic and Nonholonomic Tensor Calculus; and Its Principal Applications to the Lagrangean Dynamics of Constrained Mechanical Systems.

Papastavridis, John G.

ISBN 10: 0849385148 / ISBN 13: 9780849385148

Published by CRC Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics: A Classical Introduction to Holonomic and Nonholonomic Tensor Calculus; and Its Principal Applications to the Lagrangean Dynamics of Constrained Mechanical Systems.
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849385148
• ISBN 13: 9780849385148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics provides a concise, comprehensive, and readable introduction to classical tensor calculus - in both holonomic and nonholonomic coordinates - as well as to its principal applications to the Lagrangean dynamics of discrete systems under positional or velocity constraints. The thrust of the book focuses on formal structure and basic geometrical/physical ideas underlying most general equations of motion of mechanical systems under linear velocity constraints.
Written for the theoretically minded engineer, Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics contains uniquely accessbile treatments of such intricate topics as:

tensor calculus in nonholonomic variables

Pfaffian nonholonomic constraints

related integrability theory of Frobenius
The book enables readers to move quickly and confidently in any particular geometry-based area of theoretical or applied mechanics in either classical or modern form.

About the Author

John G. Papastavridis