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Productivity tools to study constrained motion: electrician's approach to mechanician's problem

Physics Education 2015-03-17 v1 Software Engineering Computational Physics

Abstract

An application design is offered, which students of physics can use when authoring a solver for mechanical systems with constraints. A 'chainlist' concept is introduced to capture a constrained mechanical system configuration and to pass the simulation scenario to the solver application. Code samples are given to start off the solver application (simulator) project. A short review of linear algebra for constrained motion computations (pseudoinverse) is given.

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@article{arxiv.1009.5804,
  title  = {Productivity tools to study constrained motion: electrician's approach to mechanician's problem},
  author = {Vladimir Vasilich Tregub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5804},
  year   = {2015}
}