The General Problem of the Motion of Coupled Rigid Bodies about a Fixed Point (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy Vol. 7)

Leimanis, Eugene

ISBN 10: 3540034080 / ISBN 13: 9783540034087

Published by Springer, 1965

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First Edition. 1965 hardcover. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. First printing. No jacket present. Light rubbing from storage, else near fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The General Problem of the Motion of Coupled Rigid Bodies about a Fixed Point (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy Vol. 7)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540034080
• ISBN 13: 9783540034087
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the theory of motion of several coupled rigid bodies about a fixed point one can distinguish three basic ramifications. 1. The first, the so-called classical direction of investigations, is concerned with particular cases of integrability ot the equations of motion of a single rigid body about a fixed point,1 and with their geo­ metrical interpretation. This path of thought was predominant until the beginning of the 20th century and its most illustrious represen­ tatives are L. EULER (1707-1783), J L. LAGRANGE (1736-1813), L. POINSOT (1777-1859), S. V. KOVALEVSKAYA (1850-1891), and others. Chapter I of the present monograph intends to reflect this branch of investigations. For collateral reading on the general questions dealt with in this chapter the reader is referred to the following textbooks and reports: A. DOMOGAROV [1J, F. KLEIN and A. SOMMERFELD [11, 1 , 1 J, A. G. 2 3 GREENHILL [10J, A. GRAY [1J, R. GRAMMEL [4 J, E. J. ROUTH [21' 2 , 1 2 31' 32J, J. B. SCARBOROUGH [1J, and V. V. GOLUBEV [1, 2J.