Popular Mechanics

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Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

A History of Mechanics

A History of Mechanics PDF Author: René Dugas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486173372
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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"A remarkable work which will remain a document of the first rank for the historian of mechanics." — Louis de Broglie In this masterful synthesis and summation of the science of mechanics, Rene Dugas, a leading scholar and educator at the famed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, deals with the evolution of the principles of general mechanics chronologically from their earliest roots in antiquity through the Middle Ages to the revolutionary developments in relativistic mechanics, wave and quantum mechanics of the early 20th century. The present volume is divided into five parts: The first treats of the pioneers in the study of mechanics, from its beginnings up to and including the sixteenth century; the second section discusses the formation of classical mechanics, including the tremendously creative and influential work of Galileo, Huygens and Newton. The third part is devoted to the eighteenth century, in which the organization of mechanics finds its climax in the achievements of Euler, d'Alembert and Lagrange. The fourth part is devoted to classical mechanics after Lagrange. In Part Five, the author undertakes the relativistic revolutions in quantum and wave mechanics. Writing with great clarity and sweep of vision, M. Dugas follows closely the ideas of the great innovators and the texts of their writings. The result is an exceptionally accurate and objective account, especially thorough in its accounts of mechanics in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the important contributions of Jordanus of Nemore, Jean Buridan, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Leonardo da Vinci, and many other key figures. Erudite, comprehensive, replete with penetrating insights, AHistory of Mechanics is an unusually skillful and wide-ranging study that belongs in the library of anyone interested in the history of science.

Popular Mechanics

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Pages : 304

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Archives of Mechanics

Archives of Mechanics PDF Author:
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Category : Mechanics, Applied
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Mechanics

Mechanics PDF Author: William Fogg Osgood
Publisher: Crawford Press
ISBN: 1443725374
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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MECHANICS BY WILLIAM FOGG OSGOOD, PH. D., LL. D. PERKINS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, EMERITUS IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1949 COPYRIGHT, 1937, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Published June, 1937. Reprints Nov. 1946. Reprinted, May, 1948. Reprinted November, 1949 ST UP AND ELECTROTYPED BY J. S. GUSHING CO. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Mechanics is a natural science, and like any natural science requires for its comprehension the observation and knowledge of a vast fund of individual cases. Arid so the solution of problems is of prime importance throughout all the study of this subject. But Mechanics is not an empirical subject in the sense in which physics and chemistry, when dealing with the border region of tUe human knowledge of the day are empirical. The latter take cognizance of a great number of isolated facts, which it is not as yet possible to arrange under a few laws, or postulates. The laws of Mechanics, like the laws of Geometry, so far as first approxima tions go the laws that explain the motion of the golf ball or the gyroscope or the skidding automobile, and which make possible the calculation of lunar tables and the prediction of eclipses these laws are known, and will bo as new arid important two thousand years hence, as in the recent past of science when first they emerged into the light of day. Here, then, is the problem of training the student in Mechanics to provide him with a vastfund of case material and to develop in him the habits of thought which refer a new problem back to the few fundamental laws of the subject. The physicist is keenly alive to the first requirement and tries to meet it both by simple laboratory experiments and by problems in the part of a general course on physics which is especially devoted to Mechanics. The interest of the mathematician too often begins with virtual velocities and dAlemberts Principle, and the variational principles, of which Hamiltons Principle is the most important. Both arc right, in the sense that they are dping nothing that is wrong but each takes such a fragmentary view of the whole subject, that his work is ineffectual. The world in which the boy and girl have lived is the true laboratory of elementary mechanics. The tennis ball, the golf ball, the shell on the river the automobile good old Model T, in its day, and the home-made autos and motor boats which vi PREFACE youngsters construct and will continue to construct the amateur printing press the games in which the mechanics of the body is a part all these things go to provide the student with rich laboratory experience before he begins a systematic study of mechanics. It is this experience on which the teacher of Mechanics can draw, and draw, and draw again. The Cambridge Tripos of fifty years and more ago has been discredited in recent years, and the criticism was not without foundation. It was a method which turned out problem solvers so said its opponents. But it turned out a Clerk Maxwell and it vitally influenced the training of the whole group of English physicists, whose work became so illustrious. In his interesting autobiography, From Emigrant toInventor, Pupin acknowledges in no uncertain terms the debt he owes to just this training, and to Arthur Gordon Webster, through whom he first came to know this method a method which Benjamin Osgood Peirce also prized highly in his work as a physicist. And so we make no apologies for availing ourselves to the fullest extent of that which the old Tripos Papers contributed to training in Mechanics. But we do not stop there...

Archives of Mechanics

Archives of Mechanics PDF Author:
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Category : Mechanics, Applied
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Popular Mechanics

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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Higher Mechanics

Higher Mechanics PDF Author: Sir Horace Lamb
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Category : Mechanics, Analytic
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form

The Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form PDF Author: Heinrich Hertz
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Category : Mechanics, Analytic
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Mechanics

Mechanics PDF Author: J. P. Den Hartog
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158691
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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This classic introductory text features hundreds of applications and design problems that illuminate fundamentals of trusses, loaded beams and cables, and related areas. Includes 334 answered problems.