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THE influence of aeronautics on the academic hydrodynamics of a ‘classical fluid’ shows itself in this fourth edition of Part 2 of Ramsey's “Hydromechanics”. Thus a chapter on viscosity has been added, as well as a discussion on the relation between circulation and lift of an aerofoil. There is given also some of the work due to Prandtl, Joukowski, Glauert, Jeffreys and others. Although the use of vectors or tensors has been considered and rejected, it might have been wise to follow the example of Maxwell, who in his famous treatise on “Electricity” long ago stated his results in vector form so as to give a clearer physical picture of his mathematical formulae.
A Treatise on Hydromechanics
Part 2: Hydrodynamics. By A. S. Ramsey. Fourth edition. Pp. xii + 415. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 16s. net.
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Physics. Nature 136, 598 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136598a0
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