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... student with the splendid gene- ralizations of Lagrange and of more recent philosophers . For that the books in present use leave nothing to be desired . My aim is to render more general the study of this interesting science , by ...
... student with the splendid gene- ralizations of Lagrange and of more recent philosophers . For that the books in present use leave nothing to be desired . My aim is to render more general the study of this interesting science , by ...
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... students of Natural Philosophy , but also to engineers . Most of them possess a knowledge of the principles of Me- chanics , of the method of Co - ordinate Geometry , and of the Integral Calculus ; and that is all that is here required ...
... students of Natural Philosophy , but also to engineers . Most of them possess a knowledge of the principles of Me- chanics , of the method of Co - ordinate Geometry , and of the Integral Calculus ; and that is all that is here required ...
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... student will find in the second volume of Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences , or in Walton's Mechanical Problems , an interesting sketch of the errors into which mathematicians fell , and the difficulties they overcame before ...
... student will find in the second volume of Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences , or in Walton's Mechanical Problems , an interesting sketch of the errors into which mathematicians fell , and the difficulties they overcame before ...
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... student should have in every problem a clear idea as to the system which he is con- sidering . 7. Before the time of Poinsot ( early in the present century ) , mechanicians had no better idea of the effect of a system of forces than ...
... student should have in every problem a clear idea as to the system which he is con- sidering . 7. Before the time of Poinsot ( early in the present century ) , mechanicians had no better idea of the effect of a system of forces than ...
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... student must be cautioned against regarding a sudden change or annihilation of a finite force as an impulse . If a cricket - ball is struck by a bat , it moves off with a measurable velocity . If it is let fall , it begins to move with ...
... student must be cautioned against regarding a sudden change or annihilation of a finite force as an impulse . If a cricket - ball is struck by a bat , it moves off with a measurable velocity . If it is let fall , it begins to move with ...
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