This textbook introduces undergraduate students to engineering dynamics using an innovative approach that is at once accessible and comprehensive. Combining the strengths of both beginner and advanced dynamics texts, this book has students solving dynamics problems from the very start and gradually guides them from the basics to increasingly more challenging topics without ever sacrificing rigor. Engineering Dynamics spans the full range of mechanics problems, from one-dimensional particle kinematics to three-dimensional rigid-body dynamics, including an introduction to Lagrange's and Kane's me.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Newtonian mechanics -- Planar Kinematics and kinetics of a particle -- Linear and angular momentum of a particle -- Energy of a particle -- Linear momentum of a multiparticle system -- Angular momentum and energy of a multiparticle system -- Relative motion in a rotating frame -- Dynamics of a planar rigid body -- Particle kinematics and kinetics in there dimensions -- Multiparticle and rigid-body dynamics in three dimensions -- Some important examples -- An introduction to analytical mechanics -- Appendix A.A brief review of calculus -- Appendix B. Vector algebra and useful identities -- Appendix C. Differential equations -- Appendix D. Moments of intertia of selected bodies.

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