This landmark reference source is a comprehensive guide to fundamental knowledge about the science of the actions of forces on material bodies - and the most comprehensive exposition available of the advanced engineering-oriented dynamics. In this carefully integrated and organized introduction to advanced analytical mechanics, Papastavridis brings together a wealth of knowledge, with special emphasis on basic principles and equations of motion as they apply to the most general constrained mechanical systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom. Covering concepts, principles, theories, and applications, the book also includes a large number of complete solved examples, problems (many with answers), and an extensive bibliography. Comprehensive, clearly organized, Analytical Mechanics is a valuable resource for students, their teachers, and researchers in physics and applied mathematics, and in industrial, aerospace, civil, mechanical, and other areas of engineering. Pre-publication reviews: "Unique in contents and perspective...has no competition in depth and breadth." George Simitses, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, USA "Probably the best of its kind and likely to become standard reference." Alex Dalgarno, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA

This classic book is a encylopaedic and comprehensive account of the classical theory of analytical dynamics. The treatment is rigorous yet readable, starting from first principles with kinematics before moving to equations of motion and specific and explicit methods for solving them, with chapters devoted to particle dyanmics, rigid bodies, vibration, and dissipative systems. Hamilton's principle is introduced and then applied to dynamical systems, including three-body systems and celestial mechanics. Very many examples and exercisies are supplied throughout.

This is a translation of A.I. Lurie’s classical Russian textbook on analytical mechanics. It offers a consummate exposition of the subject of analytical mechanics through a deep analysis of its most fundamental concepts. The book has served as a desk text for at least two generations of researchers working in those fields where the Soviet Union accomplished the greatest technological breakthrough of the 20th century - a race into space. Those and other related fields continue to be intensively explored since then, and the book clearly demonstrates how the fundamental concepts of mechanics work in the context of up-to-date engineering problems.