AN ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF THEORETICALMECHANICSBy GEORGE A. MERRILL, B.S., Principal of the California School of Mechanical Arts, and Director of the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts, San Francisco$1.50
AN ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF THEORETICALMECHANICS
By GEORGE A. MERRILL, B.S., Principal of the California School of Mechanical Arts, and Director of the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts, San Francisco
$1.50
MERRILL’S MECHANICS is intended for the upper classes in secondary schools, and for the two lower classes in college. Only a knowledge of elementary algebra, plane geometry, and plane trigonometry is required for a thorough comprehension of the work.¶ By presenting only the most important principles and methods, the book overcomes many of the difficulties now encountered by students in collegiate courses who take up the study of analytic mechanics, without previously having covered it in a more elementary form. It treats the subject without the use of the calculus, and consequently does not bewilder the beginner with much algebraic matter, which obscures the chief principles.¶ The book is written from the standpoint of the student in the manner that experience has proved to be the one most easily grasped. Therefore, beyond a constant endeavor to abide by the fundamental precepts of teaching, no one method of presentation has been used to the exclusion of others. The few necessary experiments are suggested and outlined, but a more complete laboratory course can easily be supplied by the instructor.¶ The explanation of each topic is followed by a few well-chosen examples to fix and apply the principles involved. A number of pages are devoted to the static treatment of force, with emphasis on the idea of action and reaction. Four-place tables of the natural trigonometric functions are included.
MERRILL’S MECHANICS is intended for the upper classes in secondary schools, and for the two lower classes in college. Only a knowledge of elementary algebra, plane geometry, and plane trigonometry is required for a thorough comprehension of the work.
¶ By presenting only the most important principles and methods, the book overcomes many of the difficulties now encountered by students in collegiate courses who take up the study of analytic mechanics, without previously having covered it in a more elementary form. It treats the subject without the use of the calculus, and consequently does not bewilder the beginner with much algebraic matter, which obscures the chief principles.
¶ The book is written from the standpoint of the student in the manner that experience has proved to be the one most easily grasped. Therefore, beyond a constant endeavor to abide by the fundamental precepts of teaching, no one method of presentation has been used to the exclusion of others. The few necessary experiments are suggested and outlined, but a more complete laboratory course can easily be supplied by the instructor.
¶ The explanation of each topic is followed by a few well-chosen examples to fix and apply the principles involved. A number of pages are devoted to the static treatment of force, with emphasis on the idea of action and reaction. Four-place tables of the natural trigonometric functions are included.
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