Adopting a step by step methodical approach, the book is aimed at first and second year undergraduates and addresses the mathematical difficulties faced by them. Solution manual free from: mech.port.ac.uk/sdalby/mbm/CTFRSoln.htm - Adopts a step-by-step methodical approach in explaining the dynamics of mechanical systems - Addresses the mathematical difficulties faced by first and second year undergraduates

Introduction; Kinematics of particles; Kinetics of particles: Force, mass, acceleration; Kinetics of particles: Work, energy, power; Kinetics of particles: Momentum and impulse; Kinematics of rigid bodies; Kinetics of rigid bodies; Gyroscopic theory; Free and forced vibrations; Appendices: Simple vector analysis; Mass moments of inertia and other geometrical properties.