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IN subject-matter this book is almost unique among our mathematical manuals. The only fellow to it is Clifford's “Kinematic.” It consists of six chapters, the first dealing with Displacement and Velocity, the second with Acceleration, the third with Epicycloidal Motion, the fourth with the Mass-Kinematics of Solids, the fifth with the Analysis of Small Strains, and the sixth almost as long as the others put together, with the Kinematics of Fluids. The subdivisions of the last chapter are headed —General Properties: Multiply Connected Spaces; Motions due to Sources and Vortices, Electrical Flow; Conjugate Functions. There is also a short appendix, with notes on such subjects as Vectors and their Derivatives, Current-Power, and Routh's Use of Conjugate Functions.
Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids; with Applications to the Distribution and Flow of Electricity.
By George M. Minchin Pp. vii + 266. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.)
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Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids; with Applications to the Distribution and Flow of Electricity . Nature 27, 239 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027239a0
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