Engineering Mechanics

For courses in Dynamics. State-of-the-art in both perspective and approach, this text puts the motion back into the presentation of dynamics. Drawing on the power and widespread use of modern computational tools - e.g., MathCAD, MATLAB, Mathematica, and Maple - it is written from the point of view that the systems of interest are in motion and focuses on solving the dynamics problems for general time and plotting and visualizing the response. * Text designed to be used in conjunction with a computational software package and an accompanying manual. The manual includes all the examples from the text and key stroke instructions for the applicable tool and allows the student to compute solutions and to visualize physical properties. * Explains how to use the software to solve the problems in the text. * Features a unique pedagogical approach - unlike the standard compute the acceleration at a single time or position approach taken by most other texts, this text: * Treats dynamics as founded on Newtons laws, which produce differential equations. * Presents the entire motion of particles and rigid bodies through the analytical or numerical solution of those equations. * Allows the v