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THIS book is intended for beginners of limited mathematical attainments, and, to meet the needs of such, extensive use is made of graphical methods and of numerical illustrations. Many worked-out exercises are included, together with others intended for solution by the student. Simple laboratory experiments are described. The standard is that of Stage I. of the Board of Education, and the method of treatment is quite orthodox. An introductory chapter on mensuration and measuring appliances is followed by chapters on elementary statical principles, leading up to the consideration of simple frames. Work, friction, and machines are then considered. Five very good chapters on the strength and elastic properties of materials are included, and the elementary laws of hydraulics form the subject-matter of the last three chapters.
Elementary Applied Mechanics.
By Prof. A. Morley W. Inchley. Pp. viii + 382. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.) Price 3s. net.
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Elementary Applied Mechanics . Nature 88, 75 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088075b0
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