In this course you will study Analytical Mechanics, including kinematics of particles and rigid bodies, motion in relatively moving reference frames, work and energy, impulse and momentum, in 2D and 3D rigid body dynamics. Special attention is given to applications in mechanical and aerospace engineering including multi-body dynamics. By the end of the semester, you should be able to construct idealised (particle and rigid body) dynamical models and predict model response to applied forces using Newtonian / Lagrangean mechanics.

This course deals with advanced concepts in dynamics and assumes the knowledge of Newtonian dynamics of particles and systems of particles. You will learn the tools of analytical dynamics with the main goal of developing mathematical models that describe the dynamics of systems of rigid bodies. You will also learn to formulate equations of motion for complicated mechanical systems and methods for solving these equations. Formulation of mathematical models of the dynamics of real engineering systems will be an undercurrent in this course.