  One of the founders of the mechanics of nonoholonomic systems is Voronec who
published in 1901 a significant generalization of the Caplygin's equations, by
removing some restrictive assumptions. In the frame of nonholonomic systems,
the Voronec equations are probably less frequent and common with respect to the
prevalent methods of quasi--coordinates (Hamel--Boltzmann equations) and of the
acceleration energy (Gibbs--Appell equations). In this paper we start from the
case of linear nonholonomic constraints, in order to extend the Voronec
equations to nonlinear nonholonomic systems. The comparison between two ways of
expressing the equations of motion is performed. We finally comment that the
adopted procedure is appropriated to implement further extensions.
