Dynamics: Kinematics of Rigid Bodies
Dynamics: Kinematics of Rigid Bodies
15 DYNAMICS
Ferdinand P. Beer
E. Russell Johnston, Jr. Kinematics of
Lecture Notes:
Rigid Bodies
J. Walt Oler
Texas Tech University
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the lecture the students would be able to:
• Determine the relations between the time, the positions, the velocities and the
accelerations of a rigid body (CO2-PO3)
• Solve motion of rigid body (CO2-PO3)
Contents
Introduction
Translation
Rotation About a Fixed Axis: Velocity
Rotation About a Fixed Axis: Acceleration
Rotation About a Fixed Axis: Representative
Slab
Equations Defining the Rotation of a Rigid
Body About a Fixed Axis
Sample Problem 5.1
Introduction
• Kinematics of rigid bodies: relations between
time and the positions, velocities, and
accelerations of the particles forming a rigid
body.
• Classification of rigid body motions:
- translation:
• rectilinear translation
• curvilinear translation
- rotation about a fixed axis
- general plane motion
- motion about a fixed point
- general motion
Translation
• Consider rigid body in translation:
- direction of any straight line inside the
body is constant,
- all particles forming the body move in
parallel lines.
• For any two particles in the body,
• Uniform Rotation, a = 0: