ABSTRACT
Vehicles such as cars, trains, ships and airplanes are intended to move people and goods from place to place in an efficient and safe manner. This book deals with certain aspects of the motion of vehicles usually described using the terms ‘‘stability and control.’’Althoughmost people have a good intuitive idea what these termsmean, this bookwill deal withmathematical models of vehicles and with more precise and technical meaning of the terms. As long as the mathematical models reasonably represent the real vehicles, the results of analysis of the models can yield insight into the actual problems that vehicles sometimes exhibit and, in the best case, can suggest ways to cure vehicle problems by modification of the physical aspects of the vehicle.
