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PROFS. TEMPLE and Bickley have exemplified and extended a principle put forward by Rayleigh so far back as 1877, a principle which, concerned primarily with the calculation of the fundamental frequencies of vibrating systems, has applications to problems of elastic stability, and to various equilibrium configurations of interest and importance to engineers. In the words of the authors, the principle may be enunciated briefly, thus: “In the fundamental mode of vibration of an elastic system, the distribution of kinetic and potential energies is such as to make the frequency a minimum”.
Rayleigh's Principle and its Applications to Engineering: the Theory and Practice of the Energy Method for the Approximate Determination of Critical Loads and Speeds.
By Prof. G. Temple Prof. W. G. Bickley. Pp. ix + 156. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 14s. net.
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F., A. Rayleigh's Principle and its Applications to Engineering: the Theory and Practice of the Energy Method for the Approximate Determination of Critical Loads and Speeds. Nature 135, 603 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135603a0
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