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FOR many years now the underlying principles of mechanics have been the subject of critical revision. In an elementary treatment of these principles from the point of view of teaching, however, it is quite impossible to approach the subject except largely from the classical point of view, if not because of the essential difficulties of the relativistic outlook, at least because a knowledge of classical mechanics appears to be essential for a true understanding of relativity.
Cours de mécanique professé à l’École Polytechnique.
Prof. Paul Painlevé. Tome 1. Pp. vi + 664. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1930.) 100 francs.
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Cours de mécanique professé à l’École Polytechnique . Nature 126, 721 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126721b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126721b0