TABLE OF CONTENTS BY
ROBERT F. STEIDEL, JR. Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Retired), University of California, Berkeley
VITTORIO (RINO) CASTELLI Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corp.
J.W. MURDOCK Late Consulting Engineer
LEONARD MEIROVITCH University Distinguished Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
by Robert F. Steidel, Jr.
REFERENCES: Beer and Johnston, Mechanics for Engineers, McGraw-Hill. Ginsberg and Genin, Statics and Dynamics, Wiley. Higdon and Stiles, Engineering Mechanics, Prentice-Hall. Holowenko, Dynamics of Machinery, Wiley. Housnor and Hudson, Applied Mechanics, Van Nostrand. Meriam, Statics and Dynamics, Wiley. Mabie and Ocvirk, Mechanisms and Dynamics of Machinery, Wiley. Synge and Griffith, Principles of Mechanics, McGrawHill. Timoshenko and Young, Advanced Dynamics, McGraw-Hill. Timoshenko and Young, Engineering Mechanics, McGraw-Hill.
Force is the action of one body on another which will cause acceleration of the second body unless acted on by an equal and opposite action counteracting the effect of the first body. It is a vector quantity.
Time is a measure of the sequence of events. In newtonian mechanics it is an absolute quantity. In relativistic mechanics it is relative to the frames of reference in which the sequence of events is observed. The common unit of time is the second.
Inertia is that property of matter which causes a resistance to any change in the motion of a body.
Mass is a quantitative measure of inertia.
Acceleration of Gravity Every object which falls in a vacuum at a given position...
