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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 20: Three-Dimensional Kinematics and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

"For many engineering applications of dynamics, such as the design of airplanes and other vehicles, we must consider three-dimensional motion. After explaining how three-dimensional motion of a rigid body is described, we derive the equations of motion and use them to analyze simple motions. Finally, we introduce the Euler angles used to specify the orientation of a rigid body in three dimensions and express the equations of angular motion in terms of them."

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