A Matlab Manual for Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics - Computational Ed. - Si Version

by Soutas-little, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780495438199
• ISBN10: 0495438197
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-02
• Publisher: CL Engineering

Summary

This supplement provides all the necessary instructions to use recent versions of MATLAB® software to aid in solving the homework problems and working through the sample problems given in the text. The manual also guides the reader through the use of MATLAB® for solving statics/dynamics problems and makes for a good resource for future studies.

Table of Contents

Mechanics: Dynamics - Matlab Manual Si Edition

Introduction

Introduction TO THE USE OF MATLAB"

Numerical Calculator Significant Figures

Symbolic Math File Saving Defining a Function

Kinematics of A Particle

Inverse-Dynamics Problem Sample Problem 1.1-l1.2 Solving Differential Equations Sample Problems 1.6-1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14-1.16, 1.18-1.20, 1.22, 1.24-1.26, 1.34-l1.35

Kinematics of Particles

Sample Problems 2.1, 2.3-2.8, 2.10, 2.12-2.15, 2.17, 2.22, l2.23

Work-Energy and Impulse-Momentum: First Integrals of Motion

Impact Problem Sample Problem l3.11

Systems of Particles

Sample Problem l4.2

Kinematics of Rigid Bodies

Sample Problems 5.8, 5.14-l5.16 Section 5.10 - Analysis of Plane Motion in Terms of a Parameter Sample Problems 5.21, 5.23-5.26, l5.31

Dynamics of Rigid Bodies In Plane Motion

Sample Problem 6.1: The Tipping Box Sample Problems 6.3-6.6, 6.8-6.9, l6.11 Solution of Nonlinear Algebraic Equations

Power, Work, Energy, Impulse, and Momentum of A Rigid Body

Sample Problem l7.9

Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

Sample Problem l8.3 Solution to the Heavy-Top Problem

Vibration

Sample Problems 9.6, 9.9-9.11: Forced Response and Resonance

THE "mnewt" PROGRAM Some MATLAB"

Commands Commonly Used in Dynamics

Index

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