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MR. DURELL'S complete work is intended to cover the course required for the School Certificate and the various matriculation examinations. The part before us contains an easy introduction to the subject which should be successful in awakening the interest of the student; its contents are restricted almost entirely to vector quantities located in the same or parallel lines, and cover velocity, acceleration, moments, work, machines, energy, momentum, and the relation of force with acceleration. Gravitational units are employed in the treatment. The author has taken pains to make his subject alive, and the book will be welcomed in such secondary schools as include the systematic teaching of mechanics in their course of work.
A School Mechanics.
C. V.
Durell
By. (Cambridge Mathematical Series.) Part 1. Pp. xx + 186 + x. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1924.) 3s. 6d.
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A School Mechanics. Nature 114, 714 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114714e0
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