The Advanced Part of a Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies
Being Part II of a Treatise on the Whole Subject

Published in 1892, this second part of a revised textbook develops the coverage of dynamics, providing formulae and examples throughout.

Edward John Routh (Author)

9781108050357, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 March 2013

450 pages, 20 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.66 kg

As senior wrangler in 1854, Edward John Routh (1831–1907) was the man who beat James Clerk Maxwell in the Cambridge mathematics tripos. He went on to become a highly successful coach in mathematics at Cambridge, producing a total of twenty-seven senior wranglers during his career - an unrivalled achievement. In addition to his considerable teaching commitments, Routh was also a very able and productive researcher who contributed to the foundations of control theory and to the modern treatment of mechanics. First published in one volume in 1860, this textbook helped disseminate Routh's investigations into stability. This revised fifth edition was published in two volumes between 1891 and 1892. The second part develops the extensive coverage of dynamics, providing formulae and examples throughout. While the growth of modern physics and mathematics may have forced out the problem-based mechanics of Routh's textbooks from the undergraduate syllabus, the utility and importance of his work is undiminished.

Preface
1. Moving axes and relative motion
2. Oscillations about equilibrium
3. Oscillations about a state of motion
4. Motion of a body under no forces
5. Motion of a body under any forces
6. Nature of the motion given by linear equations and the conditions of stability
7. Free and forced oscillations
8. Determination of the constants of integration in terms of the initial conditions
9. Calculus of finite differences
10. Calculus of variations
11. Precession and nutation
12. Motion of the moon about its centre
13. Motion of a string or chain
14. Motion of a membrane
Notes.

Subject Areas: Geometry [PBM]