Abstract
THIS book, which covers the whole of the ground associated with a course up to School Certificate standard, is likely to prove unusually attractive. The author realises from his teaching experience the very true fact that ” mechanics is often considered by boys as one of the dullest parts of physics”, and in order to meet this difficulty he has endeavoured to sustain interest throughout by showing the bearing of the principles of mechanics on modern industrial practice in engineering, aeronautics and hydraulics. The book is notable for the number of first-class photographs of examples of these applications shown in construction and vise; such instances as famous bridges, cranes, diving apparatus, turbines, Piccard's balloon, and the R. 101 may be mentioned. The style throughout is readable and the presentation interesting, and special attention is directed to familiar applications, frequently little understood, in this mechanical age. A careful selection of problems and examination questions is appended to each chapter.
Hydrostatics and Mechanics
A. E. E.
McKenzie
By. Pp. x + 272. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 3s. 6d.
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B., N. Hydrostatics and Mechanics. Nature 137, 7 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137007b0
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