Abstract
THE object of this book is to provide the student of physics with a working knowledge of theoretical mechanics. With this view the reader is introduced successively to dynamics of a particle, dynamics of rigid bodies, attractions, hydrodynamics, elasticity; in each department statics holds a subordinate position, equilibrium being treated as a particular case. The design of presenting, within the compass of a volume of moderate size, an account of the things that are fundamental in the mechanics of bodies, whether solid or fluid, rigid or deformable, is entirely laudable. It brings into prominence the essential unity of subjects which are frequently treated as independent of one another; it imposes a selection of the topics to be discussed, and thus results in the elimination of much that is artificial and conventional though sanctioned by tradition.
Elementare Mechanik als Einleitung in das Studium der theoretischen Physik.
Von W. Voigt. Zweite umgearbeitete Auflage. Pp. x + 578. (Leipzig: Veit, 1901.) Price Mk. 14.
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L., A. Elementare Mechanik als Einleitung in das Studium der theoretischen Physik . Nature 65, 293–294 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065293a0
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