ABSTRACT
Many undergraduate student readers of this book will have completed physics courses which included treatment of the portion of mechanics called dynamics. Some will also have followed this with an entire mechanics course on dynamics, as part of the engineering science portion of an engineering curriculum. How does the subject of system dynamics, which first appeared in engineering curricula in the 1960s, relate to these "classical" topics which have been part of engineering programs almost from their beginning in the late 1800s?
