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A VOLUME of mathematical papers set to candidates for admission to the Military Academy and College was reviewed in a recent issue of NATURE. The first of the present publications is a further set of such papers. The other book contains the papers in elementary engineering set at recent examinations for Naval Cadetships. The questions in this collection cover the ground of the elementary theory of steam- and gas-engines, link motions, lathes, etc., and also presuppose some knowledge of the theory of hydrostatics, heat, and graphical statics. They are well devised and very clearly put to the candidates. The wording is often such as to act persuasively on the examinees. That the questions are also up to date is indicated by the presence of some on aeroplanes and kites.
Mathematical Papers for Admission into the Royal Military Academy and the Royal Military College, and Papers in Elementary Engineering for Naval Cadetships, November, 1917, and March, 1918.
Pp. 40. Elementary Engineering Papers for Naval Cadetships (Special Entry) for the Years 1913–1917. Pp. 33. Both edited by R. M. Milne. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price of each 1s. 3d. net.
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B., S. Mathematical Papers for Admission into the Royal Military Academy and the Royal Military College, and Papers in Elementary Engineering for Naval Cadetships, November, 1917, and March, 1918. Nature 102, 123–124 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102123c0
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