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Background Material.Lagrange's Equations of Motion of a Single
Particle.Lagrange's Equations of Motion for a System of
Particles.Conservative Systems.Dissipative Forces.General Treatment of
Moments and Products of Inertia.Lagrangian Treatment of Rigid Body
Dynamics.The Euler Method of Rigid Body Dynamics.Small Oscillations about
Positions of Equilibrium.Small Oscillations about Steady Motion.Forces of
Constraint.Driving Forces Required to Establish Known Motions.Effects of
Earth's Figure and Daily Rotation on Dynamical Problems.Application of
Lagrange's Equations to Electrical and Electromechanical Systems.Hamilton's
Equations of Motion.Hamilton's Principle.Basic Equations of Dynamics in
Vector and Tensor Notation.Appendix: Relations between Direction Cosines.
