CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. F. R. S.

Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy.

THE THIRD AMERICAN EDITION:
From the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh London Editions.

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

An Elementary Essay on Descriptive Geometry.

By ROBERT ADRAIN, LL. D. F. A. P. S. F. A. A. S. &c.
And Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Columbia
College, New-York.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL CAMPBELL & SON, EVErt duyckinck, T. & J. SWORDS,
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1822.
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Laws of Gravity-Descent of heavy bodies-Motion of Projectiles in

free space

128

Practical Gunnery

140

Descent of bodies on inclined planes and curve surfaces-Motion of

On the resistance of Fluids, and with their forces and actions on bodies

236

Of the Piling of Balls and Shells

Practical Exercises concerning Specific Gravity

Of Distances by the velocity of Sound

Practical Exercises in Mechanics, Statics, Hydraulics, Sound, Motion,

Gravity, Projectiles, and other branches of Natural Philosophy

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On the Nature and Solution of Equations in gencral

258

On the Nature and Properties of Curves, and the Construction of Geo-

Of Rectifications, or, to find the lengths of Curve Linea ·

359

Promiscuous Problems and Exercises in Mechanics, Statics, Dynam-