A Treatise On The Mathematical Theory Of Elasticity Vol 2 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity This book is a second edition of one with the same title which was published by the Cambridge University Press in two volume bearing the dates 1892 and 1893. At the time, about five years ago, when it first became necessary to think about a new edition, a number of friends had sent me criticism of particular sections of the book and suggestion for improvements in matters of detail. Among these friends Prof. W. J. Lewis and Prof. W. M. F. Orr must me named with especial gratitude. I knew then that two are three chapters ought to be written, and that the results of several new researches to be incorporated, but I did not contemplate a very extension revision. The task of rearranging the old matter, with some considerable addition and a few slight omissions become distasteful, and the result appear to unsatisfactory, that at the length I abandoned the attempt, and wrote a new book containing some extracts form the old one. The science of of Elasticity - the mechanics of solid bodies ad they really are - is so important in itself, and the physical nations and analytic processes belonging to the theory are so widely used in other branches of Physics, that no apology seems to be necessary for the course that has been pursued. In the selection, and the mode of presentation, of the matter three objects have been kept in view: to make the book useful to engineers, or others, whose aims are chiefly practical, to emphasize the bearing of the theory on general questions of natural physiology, to afford a reasonably complete picture of the state of the science as it is the to-day. The desire to be useful had let me to undertake some rather laborious arithmetical computations, physical interest has promoted some thing more than a passing reference to several matter which lie outside the strict scope of the mechanical theory, completeness has be required the inclusion of some rather long analytical investigations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.