Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Graphical Methods in Applied Mathematics: A Course of Work in Mensuration and Statics for Engineering and Other Students
The importance of Graphics in modern mathematical training, and its numerous uses in practical work, render unnecessary any excuse for the publication of an elementary account of some of its applications, provided these applications are chosen with discretion and treated with clearness. The author is hopeful that competent judges will consider that the present book fulfils these requirements. It has not been written with a view to any particular examination but the easier parts will be found to meet the needs of secondary schools 'and of candidates in military and naval examinations; while students in technical colleges and candidates in the examinations of the University of London Will, it is believed, find most of the chapters of definite use to them. All sections and exercises marked with an asterisk should be omitted in a first reading of the volume; students who wish further to curtail the course of work will find an easy First Course mapped out on page ix. Special attention is directed to the large number of concrete examples, worked out in detail, which are supplied in the various chapters. It is essential that the student should himself work out the graphical constructions according to the instruo tions given, and afterwards compare his results with those obtainable by measurement of the figures in the text. To avoid the tendency to produce very small figures, which characterise the work of almost all students, the instructions supplied will be found to determine large drawings in nearly all cases. An' endeavour should be made so to construct the diagrams that all lengths are correct to at least three numerical figures it is hoped that this degree of accuracy has been attained in the answers given at the end of the book. Owing to slight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
