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Engineering Mechancis: Statics and Dynamics

by Anthony Bedford and Wallace Fowler
Fourth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddele River, NJ 2005

Authors' Homepages: Anthony Bedford Wallace Fowler

Chapter 18: Planar Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

"In Chapter 17 we analyzed planar motions of rigid bodies without considering the forces and couples causing them. In this chapter we derive planar equations of angular motion for a rigid body. By drawing the free-body diagram of an object and applying the equations of motion, we can determine both the acceleration and of its center of mass and its angular acceleration in terms of the forces and couples to which it is subjected."

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