Heard, William B.

Rigid body mechanics : mathematics, physics and applications / William B. Heard. - Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, c2006. - xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Physics textbook"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246)

Preface - 1. Rotations - 2. Kinematics, energy and momentum - 3. Dynamics - 4. Constrained systems - 5. Integrable systems - 6. Numerical methods - 7. Applications - Appendix A. Spherical trigonomety - Appendix B. Elliptic functions - C. Lie groups and Lie algebras - D. Notation - References - Index.

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Dynamics, Rigid.

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