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- From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
- Subject: Re: Rigid body dynamics textbooks
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- Date: 22 Jul 1992 09:27 EST
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- In article <1992Jul22.012704.1829@athena.mit.edu>, hbudiman@athena.mit.edu
- (Haryanto T Budiman) writes...
-
- >Hai!
- Hui! Counter! :-)
-
- >I was wondering if any of you know the list of good rigid body dynamics
- >textbooks (from elementary to advanced).
- >I am a graduate student and would like to help a friend who will take
- >dynamics this Fall.
-
- Here are a few that get some use around the office:
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- Kane, T. R. and D. A. Levinson. _Dynamics: Theory and Applications_.
- New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. ISBN 0-07-037846-0
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- Wittenburg, I. J. _Dynamics of Systems of Rigid Bodies_. Stuttgart:
- Teubner, 1977. ISBN 3-519-02337-7
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- Shahinpoor, M. _A Robot Engineering Textbook_. New York: Harper & Row,
- 1987. ISBN 0-06-045931-X
-
- and, for detailed discussions of a single rigid body in 3-D (e.g.
- orbiting spacecraft:
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- Kaplan, M. H. _Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control_. New York:
- John Wiley & Sons, 1976. ISBN 0-471-45703-5
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- Kane, T. R., P. W. Likins, and D. A. Levinson. _Spacecraft Dynamics_.
- New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. ISBN 0-07-037843-6
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- Wertz, J. R. ed. _Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control_.
- Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1985. ISBN 90-277-1204-2
-
- Good luck.
-
- RG
-
- Who became an engineer because he thought "free-body diagrams" might be
- interesting.
-