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This Primer is intended to provide the theoretical background for the standard undergraduate, mechanical engineering course in dynamics. The book contains several worked examples and summaries and exercises at the end of each chapter to aid readers in their understanding of the material. Teachers who wish to have a source of more detailed theory for the course, as well as graduate students who need a refresher course on undergraduate dynamics when preparing for certain first year graduate school examinations, and students taking the course will find the work very helpful.

Engineering Dynamics: A Primer

Part I: Dynamics of a Single Particle.- Chapter 1: Elementary Particle Dynamics.- Chapter 2: Particles and Cylindrical Polar Coordinates.- Chapter 3: Particles and Space Curves.- Chapter 4: Friction Forces and Spring Forces.- Chapter 5: Power, Work, and Energy.- Part II: Dynamics of a System of Particles.- Chapter 6: Momenta, Impulses, and Collisions.- Chapter 7: Dynamics of Systems of Particles.- Part III: Dynamics of a Single Rigid Bodies.- Chapter 8: Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies.- Chapter 9: Kinetics of a Rigid Body.- Part IV: Dynamics of Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies.- Chapter 10: Systems of Particles and Rigid Bodies.- Appendix A: Preliminaries on Vectors and Calculus.- Appendix B: Weekly Course Content and Notation in Other Texts.