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(1) THIS book is intended for the use of students having only a comparatively elementary, knowledge of mathematics; great care has been taken to ensure that the student should acquire thoroughly clear ideas of the first principles which form the groundwork of the subject, and this has been borne in mind in working out the numerical examples illustrating the various laws. The first part of the book is devoted to statics, the branch of the subject of perhaps the greatest importance to the engineer; composition and resolution of forces in one plane, moments of forces, parallel forces, couples and their composition, centres of gravity, and conditions of equilibrium are successively dealt with, and then the application of the laws, which have been deduced:, to the case of the so-called simple machines, all of them considered as frictionless, is taken up.
(1) Elements of Mechanics, with Numerous Examples for the Use of Schools and Colleges.
By G. W. Parker. Pp. ix + 245. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.) Price 4s. 6d.
(2) A Handbook of Testing.
By Prof. C. A. M. Smith. Materials. Pp. xii + 284. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 6s. net.
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B., T. (1) Elements of Mechanics, with Numerous Examples for the Use of Schools and Colleges (2) A Handbook of Testing . Nature 88, 207–208 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088207b0
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