ISBN-13: 9781848161559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 294 str.
ISBN-13: 9781848161559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 294 str.
Introduces the tools and language of modern geometric mechanics to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering. This book treats the dynamics of rotating, spinning and rolling rigid bodies from a geometric viewpoint, by formulating their solutions as coadjoint motions generated by Lie groups.