Statics: Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity - Brossura

Lamb, Horace

 
9781108005319: Statics: Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity

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A 1928 textbook on statics for students with some knowledge of mechanics.

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Descrizione del libro

As a teacher and writer, Sir Horace Lamb's stated aim was clarity: 'somehow to make these dry bones live'. His Statics was first published in 1912, and the third edition, offered here, in 1928. It was intended as a textbook for students with some knowledge of mechanics.

Contenuti

Preface to the third edition; Introduction; 1. Statics of a particle; 2. Plane kinematics of rigid body; 3. Plane statics; 4. Graphical statics; 5. Theory of frames; 6. Work and energy; 7. Analytical statics; 8. Theory of mass-systems; 9. Flexible chains; 10. Laws of fluid pressure; 11. Equilibrium of floating bodies; 12. General conditions of equilibrium of a fluid; 13. Equilibrium of gaseous fluids; 14. Capillarity; 15. Strains and stresses; 16. Extension of bars; Flexure and torsion of bars; 18. Stresses in cylindrical and spherical shells; Index.

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