The Slide Rule

About this eBook

Author

Pickworth, Charles N. (Charles Newton), 1861-1955

Title

The slide rule : a practical manual

Original Publication

New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1917, pubdate 1920.

Credits

Richard Tonsing 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

QA: Science: Mathematics

Subject

Slide-rule

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75904

Release Date

April 18, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SLIDE RULE: A PRACTICAL MANUAL
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH EDITION. — PREFACE TO THE SEVENTEENTH EDITION.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTORY.
4. 4.THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SLIDE RULE.
5. 5.NOTATION BY POWERS OF 10.
6. 6.THE MECHANICAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SLIDE RULE.
7. 7.THE PRIMITIVE SLIDE RULE.
8. 8.THE MODERN SLIDE RULE.
9. 9.THE NOTATION OF THE SLIDE RULE.
10. 10.THE CURSOR OR RUNNER.
11. 11.MULTIPLICATION.
12. 12.DIVISION.
13. 13.THE USE OF THE UPPER SCALES FOR MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION.
14. 14.RECIPROCALS.
15. 15.CONTINUED MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION.
16. 16.MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION WITH THE SLIDE INVERTED.
17. 17.PROPORTION. — GENERAL HINTS ON THE ELEMENTARY USES OF THE SLIDE RULE. — SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS. — CUBES AND CUBE ROOTS. — MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND ROOTS. — POWERS AND ROOTS BY LOGARITHMS.
18. 18.OTHER METHODS OF OBTAINING POWERS AND ROOTS. — COMBINED OPERATIONS. — HINTS ON EVALUATING EXPRESSIONS. — GAUGE POINTS. — EXAMPLES IN TECHNICAL CALCULATIONS. — Mensuration, Etc. — Weights of Metals. — Falling Bodies. — Centrifugal Force. — The Steam Engine. — Steam Boilers. — Speed Ratios of Pulleys, Etc. — Belts and Ropes. — Spur Wheels. — Screw-Cutting. — Strength of Shafting. — Moments of Inertia. — Discharge from Pumps, Pipes, Etc. — Horse-Power of Water Wheels. — Electrical Engineering. — Commercial. — Miscellaneous Calculations.
19. 19.TRIGONOMETRICAL APPLICATIONS
20. 20.THE SOLUTION OF RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLES.
21. 21.THE SOLUTION OF OBLIQUE-ANGLED TRIANGLES. — PRACTICAL TRIGONOMETRICAL APPLICATIONS. — SLIDE RULES WITH LOG.-LOG. SCALES. — SPECIAL TYPES OF SLIDE RULES. — LONG-SCALE SLIDE RULES
22. 22.CIRCULAR CALCULATORS. — SLIDE RULES FOR SPECIAL CALCULATIONS. — CONSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS IN SLIDE RULES. — THE ACCURACY OF SLIDE RULE RESULTS.
23. 23.APPENDIX. — NEW SLIDE RULES—FIFTH ROOTS, ETC.—THE SOLUTION OF ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS—GAUGE POINTS AND SIGNS ON SLIDE RULES—TABLES AND DATA—SLIDE RULE DATA SLIPS. — THE SOLUTION OF ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS. — SCREW-CUTTING GEAR CALCULATIONS. — GAUGE POINTS AND SIGNS ON SLIDE RULES. — TABLES AND DATA. — MENSURATION FORMULAE. — SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND WEIGHT OF MATERIALS. — HYDRAULIC EQUIVALENTS. — TRIGONOMETRICAL FUNCTIONS. — SLIDE RULE DATA SLIPS, compiled by C. N. Pickworth, Wh.Sc.

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