A Treatise on Mechanics
by Henry Kater
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859
- Credits
- Thiers Halliwell, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Mechanics
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 66078
- Release Date
- August 17, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A TREATISE ON MECHANICS,
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.CHAP. I. PROPERTIES OF MATTER—MAGNITUDE—IMPENETRABILITY—FIGURE—FORCE.
- 4.CHAP. II. DIVISIBILITY—POROSITY—DENSITY—COMPRESSIBILITY—ELASTICITY—DILATABILITY.
- 5.CHAP. III. INERTIA.
- 6.CHAP. IV. ACTION AND REACTION.
- 7.CHAP. V. THE COMPOSITION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCE.
- 8.CHAP. VI. ATTRACTION.
- 9.CHAP. VII. TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY.
- 10.CHAP. VIII. OF THE MOTION OF BODIES ON INCLINED PLANES AND CURVES.
- 11.CHAP. IX. THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY.
- 12.CHAP. X. THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AN AXIS.
- 13.CHAP. XI. ON THE PENDULUM.
- 14.CHAP. XII. OF SIMPLE MACHINES.
- 15.CHAP. XIII. OF THE LEVER.
- 16.CHAP. XIV. OF WHEEL-WORK.
- 17.CHAP. XV. OF THE PULLEY.
- 18.CHAP. XVI. ON THE INCLINED PLANE, WEDGE, AND SCREW.
- 19.CHAP. XVII. ON THE REGULATION AND ACCUMULATION OF FORCE.
- 20.CHAP. XVIII. MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES FOR MODIFYING MOTION.
- 21.CHAP. XIX. OF FRICTION AND THE RIGIDITY OF CORDAGE.
- 22.CHAP. XX. ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
- 23.CHAP. XXI. ON BALANCES AND PENDULUMS.
- 24.INDEX.
- 25.FOOTNOTES:
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