Fundamental principles of lagrangian dynamics: Mechanical systems with non-ideal, holonomic, and nonholonomic constraints

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 341-355

  Udwadia, Firdaus E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Non ideal constraints; holonomic and nonholonomic equality constraints; fundamental principle of Lagrangian dynamics; new minimum principle of analytical dynamics; explicit equations of motion for non ideal constraints; sliding friction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034311604     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmaa.2000.7050     Document Type: Article

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