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Physical Preliminaries

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Dynamics of Multibody Systems

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A set of points becomes a material system by assigning to each point a property called mass. The representation of the distribution of mass in a material system is described as mass geometry.

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  1. Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Professor Robert E. Roberson

  2. Institut für Dynamik der Flugsysteme, Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DFVLR), 8031, Weßling, Germany

    Dr.-Ing. Richard Schwertassek

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Roberson, R.E., Schwertassek, R. (1988). Physical Preliminaries. In: Dynamics of Multibody Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86464-3_6

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