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Vector Algebra 2 1.1 Terminology and Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Product of a Vector and a Scalar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4 Zero Vectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.5 Unit Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.6 Vector Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.7 Resolution of Vectors and Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.8 Angle between Two Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.9 Scalar (Dot) Product of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.10 Vector (Cross) Product of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.11 Scalar Triple Product of Three Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.12 Vector Triple Product of Three Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.13 Derivative of a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. Centroids and Surface Properties 12 2.1 Position Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2 First Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.3 Centroid of a Set of Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.4 Centroid of a Curve, Surface, or Solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.5 Mass Center of a Set of Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.6 Mass Center of a Curve, Surface, or Solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.7 First Moment of an Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.8 Theorems of Guldinus±Pappus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.9 Second Moments and the Product of Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.10 Transfer Theorem or Parallel-Axis Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.11 Polar Moment of Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.12 Principal Axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3. Moments and Couples 30 3.1 Moment of a Bound Vector about a Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.2 Moment of a Bound Vector about a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.3 Moments of a System of Bound Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.4 Couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 v 3.5 Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3.6 Representing Systems by Equivalent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4. Equilibrium 40 4.1 Equilibrium Equations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.2 Supports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4.3 Free-Body Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5. Dry Friction 46 5.1 Static Coef®cient of Friction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 5.2 Kinetic Coef®cient of Friction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 5.3 Angles of Friction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 References 49 CHAPTER 2 Dynamics Dan B. Marghitu, Bogdan O. Ciocirlan, and Cristian I. Diaconescu 1. Fundamentals 52 1.1 Space and Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 1.2 Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 1.3 Angular Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 2. Kinematics of a Point 54 2.1 Position, Velocity, and Acceleration of a Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 2.2 Angular Motion of a Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 2.3 Rotating Unit Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 2.4 Straight Line Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 2.5 Curvilinear Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2.6 Normal and Tangential Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 2.7 Relative Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3. Dynamics of a Particle 74 3.1 Newton's Second Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3.2 Newtonian Gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 3.3 Inertial Reference Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 3.4 Cartesian Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 3.5 Normal and Tangential Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 3.6 Polar and Cylindrical Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 3.7 Principle of Work and Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 3.8 Work and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 3.9 Conservation of Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 3.10 Conservative Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 3.11 Principle of Impulse and Momentum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 3.12 Conservation of Linear Momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 3.13 Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 3.14 Principle of Angular Impulse and Momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 4. Planar Kinematics of a Rigid Body 95 4.1 Types of Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 4.2 Rotation about a Fixed Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 4.3 Relative Velocity of Two Points of the Rigid Body . . . . . . . . . . . 97 4.4 Angular Velocity Vector of a Rigid Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 4.5 Instantaneous Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 4.6 Relative Acceleration of Two Points of the Rigid Body . . . . . . . 102 vi Table of Contents 4.7 Motion of a Point That Moves Relative to a Rigid Body . . . . . . 103 5. Dynamics of a Rigid Body 111 5.1 Equation of Motion for the Center of Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 5.2 Angular Momentum Principle for a System of Particles. . . . . . . 113 5.3 Equation of Motion for General Planar Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 5.4 D'Alembert's Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 References 117 CHAPTER 3 Mechanics of Materials Dan B. Marghitu, Cristian I. Diaconescu, and Bogdan O. Ciocirlan 1. Stress 120 1.1 Uniformly Distributed Stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1.2 Stress Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1.3 Mohr's Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 1.4 Triaxial Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 1.5 Elastic Strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 1.6 Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 1.7 Shear and Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 1.8 Singularity Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 1.9 Normal Stress in Flexure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 1.10 Beams with Asymmetrical Sections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 1.11 Shear Stresses in Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 1.12 Shear Stresses in Rectangular Section Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 1.13 Torsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 1.14 Contact Stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 2. De¯ection and Stiffness 149 2.1 Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 2.2 Spring Rates for Tension, Compression, and Torsion . . . . . . . . 150 2.3 De¯ection Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 2.4 De¯ections Analysis Using Singularity Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 153 2.5 Impact Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 2.6 Strain Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 2.7 Castigliano's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 2.8 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 2.9 Long Columns with Central Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 2.10 Intermediate-Length Columns with Central Loading . . . . . . . . . 169 2.11 Columns with Eccentric Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 2.12 Short Compression Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 3. Fatigue 173 3.1 Endurance Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 3.2 Fluctuating Stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 3.3 Constant Life Fatigue Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 3.4 Fatigue Life for Randomly Varying Loads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 3.5 Criteria of Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 References 187 Table of Contents vii CHAPTER 4 Theory of Mechanisms Dan B. Marghitu 1. Fundamentals 190 1.1 Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 1.2 Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 1.3 Kinematic Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 1.4 Number of Degrees of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 1.5 Planar Mechanisms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 2. Position Analysis 202 2.1 Cartesian Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 2.2 Vector Loop Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 3. Velocity and Acceleration Analysis 211 3.1 Driver Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 3.2 RRR Dyad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 3.3 RRT Dyad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 3.4 RTR Dyad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 3.5 TRT Dyad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 4. Kinetostatics 223 4.1 Moment of a Force about a Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 4.2 Inertia Force and Inertia Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 4.3 Free-Body Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 4.4 Reaction Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 4.5 Contour Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 References 241 CHAPTER 5 Machine Components Dan B. Marghitu, Cristian I. Diaconescu, and Nicolae Craciunoiu 1. Screws 244 1.1 Screw Thread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 1.2 Power Screws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 2. Gears 253 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 2.2 Geometry and Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 2.3 Interference and Contact Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 2.4 Ordinary Gear Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 2.5 Epicyclic Gear Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 2.6 Differential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 2.7 Gear Force Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 2.8 Strength of Gear Teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 3. Springs 283 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 3.2 Material for Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 3.3 Helical Extension Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 3.4 Helical Compression Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 3.5 Torsion Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 3.6 Torsion Bar Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 3.7 Multileaf Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 3.8 Belleville Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 viii Table of Contents 4. Rolling Bearings 297 4.1 Generalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 4.2 Classi®cation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 4.3 Geometry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 4.4 Static Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 4.5 Standard Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 4.6 Bearing Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 5. Lubrication and Sliding Bearings 318 5.1 Viscosity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 5.2 Petroff's Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 5.3 Hydrodynamic Lubrication Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 5.4 Design Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 References 336 CHAPTER 6 Theory of Vibration Dan B. Marghitu, P. K. Raju, and Dumitru Mazilu 1. Introduction 340 2. Linear Systems with One Degree of Freedom 341 2.1 Equation of Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 2.2 Free Undamped Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 2.3 Free Damped Vibrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 2.4 Forced Undamped Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 2.5 Forced Damped Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 2.6 Mechanical Impedance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 2.7 Vibration Isolation: Transmissibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 2.8 Energetic Aspect of Vibration with One DOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 2.9 Critical Speed of Rotating Shafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 3. Linear Systems with Finite Numbers of Degrees of Freedom . . . . . . . 385 3.1 Mechanical Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 3.2 Mathematical Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 3.3 System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 3.4 Analysis of System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 3.5 Approximative Methods for Natural Frequencies. . . . . . . . . . . 407 4. Machine-Tool Vibrations 416 4.1 The Machine Tool as a System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 4.2 Actuator Subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 4.3 The Elastic Subsystem of a Machine Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 4.4 Elastic System of Machine-Tool Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 4.5 Subsystem of the Friction Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 4.6 Subsystem of Cutting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 References 444 CHAPTER 7 Principles of Heat Transfer Alexandru Morega 1. Heat Transfer Thermodynamics 446 1.1 Physical Mechanisms of Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Table of Contents ix 1.2 Technical Problems of Heat Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 2. Conduction Heat Transfer 456 2.1 The Heat Diffusion Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 2.2 Thermal Conductivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 2.3 Initial, Boundary, and Interface Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 2.4 Thermal Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 2.5 Steady Conduction Heat Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 2.6 Heat Transfer from Extended Surfaces (Fins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 2.7 Unsteady Conduction Heat Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 3. Convection Heat Transfer 488 3.1 External Forced Convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 3.2 Internal Forced Convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 3.3 External Natural Convection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 3.4 Internal Natural Convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 References 555 CHAPTER 8 Fluid Dynamics Nicolae Craciunoiu and Bogdan O. Ciocirlan 1. Fluids Fundamentals 560 1.1 De®nitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 1.2 Systems of Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 1.3 Speci®c Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 1.4 Viscosity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561 1.5 Vapor Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 1.6 Surface Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 1.7 Capillarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 1.8 Bulk Modulus of Elasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 1.9 Statics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 1.10 Hydrostatic Forces on Surfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564 1.11 Buoyancy and Flotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 1.12 Dimensional Analysis and Hydraulic Similitude . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 1.13 Fundamentals of Fluid Flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 2. Hydraulics 572 2.1 Absolute and Gage Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 2.2 Bernoulli's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 2.3 Hydraulic Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 2.4 Pressure Intensi®ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578 2.5 Pressure Gages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 2.6 Pressure Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580 2.7 Flow-Limiting Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 2.8 Hydraulic Pumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 2.9 Hydraulic Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 2.10 Accumulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 2.11 Accumulator Sizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 2.12 Fluid Power Transmitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 2.13 Piston Acceleration and Deceleration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 2.14 Standard Hydraulic Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 2.15 Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 x Table of Contents [...]... purpose of this handbook is to present the reader with a teachable text that includes theory and examples Useful analytical techniques provide the student and the practitioner with powerful tools for mechanical design This book may also serve as a reference for the designer and as a source book for the researcher This handbook is comprehensive, convenient, detailed, and is a guide for the mechanical engineer... fundamentals This handbook contains the fundamental laws and theories of science basic to mechanical engineering including controls and mathematics It provides readers with a basic understanding of the subject, together with suggestions for more speci®c literature The general approach of this book involves the presentation of a systematic explanation of the basic concepts of mechanical systems This handbook' s... 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