Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Tutorial Dynamics
The present book may be regarded as an enlarged edition of the author's Text-Book of Dynamics, and meets the requirements of the Dynamic portion of the Intermediate Science Examination of London University. In order, as far as possible, to separate the principles of Dynamics proper from those applications of Geometry and Trigonometry required to solve the more elaborate problems in the subject, the first ten chapters deal exclusively with Motion in a straight line, the Parallelogram Law being introduced in Chapter XI. This course was adopted in the first instance for two reasons. In the first place it must have been the experience of most teachers that those students who introduce higher analytic methods in a subject like Dynamics at too early a stage are apt to mistake their knowledge of such methods for a knowledge of Dynamics, and to overlook such matters of fundamental importance as relate to units and the like; - indeed we have seen students who could apply the Differential Calculus to problems on Dynamics but who were quite incapable of interpreting their results and became hopelessly mixed between foot-pounds, poundals, ergs and dynes. In the second place, teaching experience soon convinced us that the Parallelogram of Velocities is a far harder proposition to understand than is frequently supposed.
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