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THIS volume is the result of an experiment made by the author to improve on the usual methods of introducing students to the study of dynamics. The first respect in which this has been essayed is in presenting the subject from the beginning in a general form, instead of beginning with those problems which are geometrically most simple. Thus the volume has rather the appearance of a treatise on what is usually known as analytical dynamics. But the object which the author has in view is not so much the development of the advanced analytical theory, which becomes largely a study of differential equations, as a unification of method which shall obviate the feeding of the student on a multiplicity of isolated problems in which the dynamical properties are essentially of the same type.
(1) Leçons sur la Dynamique des Systèmes matériels.
By Prof. E. Delassus. Pp. xii + 421. (Paris: A. Hermann et Fils, 1913.) Price 14 francs.
(2) The Theory of Relativity.
By Prof. R. D. Carmichael. Pp. 74. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1913.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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(1) Leçons sur la Dynamique des Systèmes matériels (2) The Theory of Relativity. Nature 93, 28 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093028a0
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