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PROF. CHATLEY has evidently devoted himself to a study of hydrodynamics and of its literature. He has attempted to boil down into an inordinately small compass, So as to be useful to engineers, an exposition of one of the most difficult and elusive subjects with which either the engineer or the mathematician has to deal. Explanation of principles which might be useful to a novice is replaced by a multiplicity of formulæ, which are flung at the reader with but little regard to dimensions or units. Numerical examples which, even in the case of clear exposition, always assist the student who wishes to apply a formula to any case in which he is interested are entirely absent.
The Force of the Wind.
By Prof. Herbert Chatley. Pp. viii + 83; illustrated. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 3s. net.
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The Force of the Wind . Nature 81, 366 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081366a0
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