The University Tutorial Series (Classic Reprint): The Tutorial Statics

Excerpt from The University Tutorial Series

The present book includes those portions of Statics Which are contained in the syllabus of the Science and Art Second (advanced) Stage Examination in Theoretical Mechanics. The earlier chapters require little or no knowledge of Trigonometry, involving as they do practically nothing beyond the mere definitions of the sine, cosine, and tangent. The later chapters deal with the General Conditions of Equi librium of Forces in one Plane; the Principles of Virtual Work and Virtual Velocities, the Laws of Friction, and the Centres of Gravity of frusta of cones, circular arcs, spherical zones, and the like. For the manuscript of these we are indebted to Mr. A. Cracknell, ma.