Kinematics and dynamics of machinery

Robert L. Maxwell

Practicing or prospective engineers interested in mechanical engineering or machine design will find this book a most welcome addition to the literature in the field. In a single volume, it presents the great bulk of principles and practical applications that the engineer is expected to know and use. And it provides a truly integrated treatment of kinematics and dynamics. The author has succeeded at every point in making the book readable, thorough, and stimulating. To illustrated basic concepts, he has provided carefully chosen examples throughout, and where he uses mathematics, it is always as a means, never as an end. The treatment emphasizes accelerations analysis and its relation to forces; and the material on these topics is much broader than that usually found in books at this level. At the same time, the treatment de-emphasizes detailed descriptions of various mechanisms and concentrates on kinematic analysis. Kinematics is handled as a tool of dynamic analysis. The text compares the various methods of kinematic analysis and points out the advantages and disadvantages of each.