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INTENDRD to be used as a textbook in classes entering upon the study of mechanisms and having little familiarity with the details or operation of machinery in general, Prof. Pearce's “Principles of Mechanism” provides a useful elementary survey of the subject. The matter is much more on the practical side than the title suggests, and the arrangement is designed, to lead up to the general principles through a detailed discussion of a number of tho more important and representative applications such as: friction, toothed and screw gearing; belt, rope and chain drivos; intermittent motions; ordinary and epicyclic wheel trains. Then, after explaining in detail and by numerous examples the method of analysis by centra or virtual centre, tho author concludes with linkages, cams, and the geometrical problems involved in straight line motions, motor-car steering gears, etc. While the book as a whole deals with matter which is not new, the author has succeeded, by his arrangement of the subject, the explanatory text and the examples chosen, in putting it before his readers attractively and convincingly. A valuable feature for the student is the comprehensive range of problems presented for solution.
Principles of Mechanism
Prof.
C. E.
Pearce
By Pp. ix + 283. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934.) 21s. 6d. net.
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C., J. Principles of Mechanism. Nature 136, 244 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136244d0
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