According to the author and reviewers, more than 50% of the material taught in
courses such as Advanced Dynamics, Mutibody Dynamics, and Spacecraft Dynamics
is common to one another. Where graduate students in Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering may have the potential to work on projects that are related to any
of the engineering disciplines, they have not been exposed to enough mics
which will teach coordinate frames. The transformation and rotation theory
along with the differentiation theory in different coordinate frames will
provides the required background to learn the rigid body dynamics based on
Newton-Euler principles. Applications to this coverage can be found in vehicle
dynamics, spacecraft dynamics, aircraft dynamics, robot dynamics, and multibody
dynamics, each in a chapter. The Newton equations of motion will be transformed
to Lagrange equation as a bridge to analytical dynamics. The methods of Lagrange
and Hamilton will be applied on rigid body dynamics. Finally through the coverage
of special applications this text provides understanding of advanced systems
without restricting itself to a particular discipline. The author will provide
a detailed solutions manual and powerpoint slides as ancillaries to this book.

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