Reference Material: Videos + Notes

Applying Newtonian Mechanics Notes here

• Video: Car on truck ramp moving 30 mph

• Video: Free-falling spring-mass system

• Video: Pendulum motion

• Video: Tying down a payload on a truck bed

• Video: Solving nonlinear equations of motion p I Notes here

• Video: Solving nonlinear equations of motion p II Notes here

Textbook reference

• Kasdin and Paley’s Engineering Dynamics ch. 3

• Kasdin and Paley’s Engineering Dynamics ch. 9.

Focus on:

1. Example 3.1 - Solving a pendulum equation using Cartesian coordinates

2. Example 3.3 - Satellite tracking

3. Example 3.4 - Pendulum using different coordinates

4. Example 3.5 - Inclined plane

5. Example 3.12 - Particle on a spring free to move in a plane

6. Section 3.5 - The Polar frame and fictional forces

7. Example 3.14 - Pendulum in an accelerating box

8. tutorial 3.3 - Particle on a hemisphere

9. Example 9.6 - the moment of a couple

10. Example 9.9 - Disk rolling down an incline plane

11. Example 9.15 - The compound pendulum