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A Treatise on Mechanics
Henry Kater and Dionysius Lardner
Why does a body at rest stay at rest, and a moving one keep moving? Kater's treatise builds mechanics from the ground up: the properties of matter, inertia, action and reaction, the composition of forces, and attraction. Clear demonstrations turn abstract law into intuition. A grounding in the physics that runs the everyday world. Start with the rules that move everything.
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25 chapters
- 1A TREATISE ON MECHANICS,
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3CHAP. I. PROPERTIES OF MATTER—MAGNITUDE—IMPENETRABILITY—FIGURE—FORCE.
- 4CHAP. II. DIVISIBILITY—POROSITY—DENSITY—COMPRESSIBILITY—ELASTICITY—DILATABILITY.
- 5CHAP. III. INERTIA.
- 6CHAP. IV. ACTION AND REACTION.
- 7CHAP. V. THE COMPOSITION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCE.
- 8CHAP. VI. ATTRACTION.
- 9CHAP. VII. TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY.
- 10CHAP. VIII. OF THE MOTION OF BODIES ON INCLINED PLANES AND CURVES.
- 11CHAP. IX. THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY.
- 12CHAP. X. THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AN AXIS.
- 13CHAP. XI. ON THE PENDULUM.
- 14CHAP. XII. OF SIMPLE MACHINES.
- 15CHAP. XIII. OF THE LEVER.
- 16CHAP. XIV. OF WHEEL-WORK.
- 17CHAP. XV. OF THE PULLEY.
- 18CHAP. XVI. ON THE INCLINED PLANE, WEDGE, AND SCREW.
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