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THIS cheap issue from His Majesty's Stationery Office of a second edition of Sir George Greenhill's notes, prepared for the advanced class of the Ordnance College, Woolwich, will, we hope, become known to teachers and students. The title is modest, the book has never been advertised, and few people are aware of its great value and originality. It contains many excellent numerical examples, rather different from those which teachers usually set in elementary dynamics classes, but the reader will be even more interested in letting the author carry him occasionally into problems which are quite outside any ordinary curriculum. When he deals with problems which are dealt with in the text-books, he takes a way of his own in each case, and gives us new ideas. The end sections deal ing with the stability of rigid bodies moving in fluids are of great interest.
Notes on Dynamics.
By Sir G. Greenhill. Second Edition. Pp. 221. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1909.) Price 3s.
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P., J. Notes on Dynamics . Nature 80, 455 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080455c0
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