Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the student
- Part One Simple Models in Mechanics
- 1 Newtonian mechanics
- 2 Kinematics on a line
- 3 Ropes and pulleys
- 4 Friction
- 5 Differential equations: linearity and SHM
- 6 Springs and oscillations
- Part Two Models with Difference Equations
- Part Three Models with Differential Equations
- Part Four Further Mechanics
- Part Five Coupled Models
- References
- Index
2 - Kinematics on a line
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the student
- Part One Simple Models in Mechanics
- 1 Newtonian mechanics
- 2 Kinematics on a line
- 3 Ropes and pulleys
- 4 Friction
- 5 Differential equations: linearity and SHM
- 6 Springs and oscillations
- Part Two Models with Difference Equations
- Part Three Models with Differential Equations
- Part Four Further Mechanics
- Part Five Coupled Models
- References
- Index
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- Modelling with Differential and Difference Equations , pp. 21 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997