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Section 9.8 Extensions to System of Rigid Bodies

Unlike kinematic screws, kinetic and dynamic screws can be defined for systems of rigid bodies. This is not surprising since these quantities were first defined for arbitrary material systems of constant mass.

Proof.

This is simply a consequence of writing the integral \(\int_\Sigma\br_{AP} \times {\bf u}_P \, dm \) as the sum \(\int_{\cB_1} \br_{AP} \times {\bf u}_P \,dm + \int_{\cB_2} \br_{AP} \times {\bf u}_P \, dm + \cdots + \int_{\cB_N} \br_{AP} \times {\bf u}_P \, dm\text{.}\) The same applies to the kinetic energy of \(\Si\text{.}\)