An Intermediate Course of Mechanics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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OF all the phenomena of Nature the most direct and most universal are concerned with the motions of bodies. Stones fall, rivers flow, the stars circle in the sky. We ourselves move from place to place,' and set other things in motion or keep them at rest.

What are the conditions under which motion takes place? We can give various more or less vague answers to this question. It is the business of the Science of Mechanics to find out what these conditions are, and express them in definite (le. Scientific) language. The language that is employed is to a large extent the language of Mathematics. Mechanics is therefore often regarded as a branch of Mathematics, and is called Applied Mathematics. But the phenomena which are described are indeed merely the most universal of the phenomena of Nature common to both animate and inanimate things; and the.

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