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IN this excellent treatise, extending over nearly 400 pages, the author introduces to the student the principles of dynamics. Although the book is issued under the latter title, it will be found to differ considerably in its treatment from the majority of text-books on the same subject. For instance, the two subjects of statics and kinetics have been considered together, the former being regarded as a special case of the latter. Again, the discussion of force is reserved until an attempt has been made to give an idea of mass and its measurement; thus a preliminary study of momentum finds an early place.
Elementary Dynamics of Particles and Solids.
By W. M. Hicks (London: Macmillan and Co.,1890.)
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B., G. Elementary Dynamics of Particles and Solids. Nature 41, 534 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041534a0
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