Vintage 1962 Introduction To Advanced Dynamics McCuskey Black HC DJ Physics
Original dust jacket is present with heavy wear including creasing, surface rubbing, edge tears, corner chips, and losses at spine ends and along the lower edges, plus overall age toning. Black cloth boards beneath show rubbed and softened corners and spine ends with fraying and small exposed spots, and noticeable edge wear at the bottom. Front endpaper has scattered foxing and a previous owner's name written in red ink at the upper margin; endpapers and text block edges show age toning and additional light foxing. Interior pages remain legible but contain red ink underlining, bracketed passages, and pencil annotations on many pages, along with occasional small margin smudges and a few creased corners. Binding is intact and secure with no loose or missing pages.
Title: An Introduction to Advanced Dynamics.
Author: S. W. McCuskey (Sidney W. McCuskey), Department of Mathematics, Case Institute of Technology.
Format: Vintage 1962 hardcover physics and applied mathematics textbook with original printed dust jacket.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts; Palo Alto; London.
Publication details: Copyright 1959; this copy is the second printing dated September 1962; printed in the United States of America.
Language: English.
Genre/Subject: Classical mechanics, advanced dynamics, engineering mechanics, applied mathematics, and theoretical physics.
Narrative type: Nonfiction technical text presenting theory, worked examples, and problem sets for university-level study.
Intended audience: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, engineers, physicists, and readers interested in rigorous analytical mechanics.
Country of origin: United States.
Physical description: Black cloth hardcover boards with gilt spine titling, bound text on off-white paper, and an orange and red printed dust jacket.
Contents overview: Chapters cover fundamentals of Newtonian dynamics, Hamilton's principle and Lagrange's equations, central force motion, and dynamics of a rigid body, including topics such as Newton's laws, angular momentum, work and energy, conservative force fields, impulsive motion, moving reference frames, inverse-square forces, stability of circular orbits, and rotational kinetic energy.
Illustrations and features: Text is illustrated with graphs, coordinate diagrams, mechanical schematics, and mathematical figures accompanying derivations, examples, and end-of-chapter problem sets.
Reference information: Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 59-7553.
Additional notes: Classic mid twentieth-century Addison-Wesley text on analytical dynamics suitable for reference, coursework support, or collection by historians of science and engineering education.
Condition details: see condition field for full description of wear and handling.
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