This book is to serve as a text for engineering students at the senior or begi...This book is to serve as a text for engineering students at the senior or beginning graduate level in a second course in dynamics. It grew out of many years experience in teaching such a course to senior students in mechanical engineering at the...more
Mathematical Principles of Mechanics and Electromagnetism: Part A: Analytical ...Mathematical Principles of Mechanics and Electromagnetism: Part A: Analytical and Continuum Mechanicsmore
Linear stochastic systems are successfully used to provide mathematical models...Linear stochastic systems are successfully used to provide mathematical models for real processes in fields such as aerospace engineering communications manuafacturing finance and economy. This monograph presents a useful methodology for the control...more
As an outgrowth of the advancement in modern control theory during the past 20...As an outgrowth of the advancement in modern control theory during the past 20 years dynamic modeling and analysis of economic systems has become an important subject in the study of economic theory. Recent developments in dynamic utility economic...more
This textbook is a vector treatment of the principles of mechanics written pri...This textbook is a vector treatment of the principles of mechanics written primarily for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students of engineering. In Volume 1: Kinematics the groundwork is laid for students to master the free body...more
This book deals with a very important problem in power system planning for cou...This book deals with a very important problem in power system planning for countries in which hydrogeneration accounts for the greatest part of the system power production. During the past thirty years many techniques have been developed to cope...more
Significant advances in the field of optimal control have been made over the p...Significant advances in the field of optimal control have been made over the past few decades. These advances have been well documented in numerous fine publications and have motivated a number of innovations in electric power system engineering but...more
This book represents an extended and substantially revised version of my earli...This book represents an extended and substantially revised version of my earlierbook Optimal Control in Problems ofMathematical Physics originally published in Russian in 1975. About 60% of the text has been completely revised and major additions...more
This book grew out of a nine-month course first given during 1976-77 in the Di...This book grew out of a nine-month course first given during 1976-77 in the Division of Engineering Mechanics University of Texas (Austin) and repeated during 1977-78 in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Northwestern...more
Advanced Design Problems in Aerospace Engineering Volume 1: Advanced Aerospace...Advanced Design Problems in Aerospace Engineering Volume 1: Advanced Aerospace Systems presents six authoritative lectures on the use of mathematics in the conceptual design of various types of aircraft and spacecraft. It covers the following...more
As it was already seen in the first volume of the present book its guideline i...As it was already seen in the first volume of the present book its guideline is precisely the mathematical model of mechanics. The classical models which we refer to are in fact models based on the Newtonian model of mechanics on its five principles...more
Before his death in March 1976 A. H. Lightstone delivered the manu- script for...Before his death in March 1976 A. H. Lightstone delivered the manu- script for this book to Plenum Press. Because he died before the editorial work on the manuscript was completed I agreed (in the fall of 1976) to serve as a surrogate author and to...more
Mathematical Principles of Mechanics and Electromagnetism: Part B: Electromagn...Mathematical Principles of Mechanics and Electromagnetism: Part B: Electromagnetism and Gravitationmore
This textbook is a vector treatment of the principles of mechanics written pri...This textbook is a vector treatment of the principles of mechanics written primarily for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students of engineering. In Volume 1: Kinematics the groundwork is laid for students to master the free body...more