Rigid Body Dynamics: A Lagrangian Approach

This monograph provides a complete and up-to-date examination of rigid body dynamics using a Lagrangian approach. All known integrable cases, which were previously scattered throughout the literature, are collected here for convenient reference. Also contained are particular solutions to diverse problems treated within rigid body dynamics.

The first seven chapters introduce the elementary dynamics of the rigid body and its main problems. A full historical account of the discovery and devel...