Abstract
THE book opens with a short account of vector analysis, going as far as scalar multiplication and the differentiation of vectors. The vector method of representation is kept to the fore throughout. In this respect it has an advantage over the older books on mechanics, but the mathematics is of a higher order than that acquired by the average student at the time of beginning the study of mechanics. However, the book will be of value to many students for the clearness of the treatment and the comprehensive set of examples.
An Introductory Course of Mechanics.
E. G.
Phillips
By. Pp. viii + 255. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.
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An Introductory Course of Mechanics . Nature 133, 668 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133668e0
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