✦ LIBER ✦
Vakonomic mechanics versus non-holonomic mechanics: a unified geometrical approach
✍ Scribed by Manuel de Leon; Juan C. Marrero; David Martin de Diego
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0393-0440
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper some geometrical aspects of constrained mechanics are studied. A symplectic setting for vakonomic mechanics is given, and the conservation of the energy is discussed. This formulation needs constraint forces involving accelerations. A reduction procedure is given for Čaplygin vakonomic systems. Finally, a unified geometrical framework for non-holonomic and vakonomic mechanics is described.