A Geometric Approach to Modeling and Analysis
by
Taeyoung Lee, Melvin Leok, N. Harris McClamroch
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on...