Abstract
A WORK on elementary dynamics written especially for engineers gives one reason to expect something rather different from the usual text-book on purely mathematical lines, but the present work does not appear to have any particular interest for an engineering student. We are asked to consider the usual problems of blocks sliding down inclined planes, particles moving in circles, ladders leaning against walls, and, in fact, we find all the usual paraphernalia which the mathematical schoolmaster has invented for teaching the subject.
A Brief Course in Elementary Dynamics for Students of Engineering.
By Ervin S. Ferry. Pp. xi + 182. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 5s. net.
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C., E. A Brief Course in Elementary Dynamics for Students of Engineering . Nature 80, 95–96 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080095c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/080095c0