O’Reilly O.M. Engineering Dynamics. A Primer

2nd Ed., Springer, 2010. – 255 pp., ISBN1441963596, OCR.This primer is intended for three audiences: students taking an undergraduate engineering dynamics course, graduate students needing a refresher in such a course, and teachers of such a course. For the students, I hope that this primer succeeds in providing them with a succinct account of the theory needed for the course, an exploration of the limitations of such a course, and a message that the subject at hand can be mastered with understanding and not rote memorization of formulae.
For all of these audiences, an appendix provides the notational and presentational correspondences between the chapters in this primer and the aforementioned texts. In addition, each chapter is accompanied by a summary section.