Elementary Hydrostatics

Abstract

THE success this work has achieved will be gathered from the fact that this is the fifteenth edition, so that any further criticism on our part would be quite unnecessary. The brief snatches of historical matter, together with the lucid and simple explanations, all tend to stir up in the student an amount of interest which in the reading of many other works on this subject lies dormant. By a careful study of the illustrations, especially those relating to pumps, presses, &c, the beginner may gather much tnowledge about the principles on which they are based. In this edition the text has undergone a careful revision, several alterations and additions having been made. A uniform system of units has been maintained throughout, and the chapters on the motions of fluids and on sound, which in previous editions were inserted among those on the equilibrium of fluids, have here been separated. The examples and problems at the termination of each chapter are as numerous as ever, a new edition of their solutions being near completion. Both at the Universities and elsewhere, the work will still continue to occupy the high position which it has held among treatises of its kind.

Elementary Hydrostatics.

By W. H. Besant "Cambridge Mathematical Series." (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1892.)